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GHSA-77GX-3RJC-296Q

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-17 04:06 – Updated: 2025-04-12 12:52

Details

kernel_crashdump in Apport before 2.19 allows local users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) or possibly gain privileges via a (1) symlink or (2) hard link attack on /var/crash/vmcore.log.

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CVE-2015-1338 (GCVE-0-2015-1338)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-10-01 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 04:40

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

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GHSA-77GX-3RJC-296Q

CVE-2015-1338 (GCVE-0-2015-1338)

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