CVE-2019-11482

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions apport (affected versions not specified)

Description A time of check to time of use (TOCTTOU) vulnerability was discovered in apport, allowing a user to cause core files to be written in arbitrary directories. The issue is related to synchronization errors when using a shared resource, which can be exploited to create a public crash report for a privileged process.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.