GSD-2019-11481
Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:24Details
Kevin Backhouse discovered that apport would read a user-supplied configuration file with elevated privileges. By replacing the file with a symbolic link, a user could get apport to read any file on the system as root, with unknown consequences.
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