Race condition vulnerability in Apport allows local users to gain root privileges and write to arbitrary files

CVE-2015-1325 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Race condition in Apport before 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1 as packaged in Ubuntu 15.04, before 2.14.70ubuntu8.5 as packaged in Ubuntu 14.10, before 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11 as packaged in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and before 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.9 as packaged in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS allow local users to write to arbitrary files and gain root privileges.

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