Improper Ownership Check in ABRT's Kernel-Invoked Coredump Processor

Improper Ownership Check in ABRT's Kernel-Invoked Coredump Processor

CVE-2015-3142 · LOW Severity

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

The kernel-invoked coredump processor in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) does not properly check the ownership of files before writing core dumps to them, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging write permissions to the working directory of a crashed application.

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