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CVE-2019-11481

Published: 2020-02-08T05:15Z
Last Modified: 2024-11-21T04:21Z
Source: MITRE CVE List
License: MITRE-CVE-TOS
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. > MITRE Terms of Use apply – see LICENSE‑MITRE.txt