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CVE-2019-11483 is a vulnerability discovered by Sander Bos in Ubuntu's Apport crash handling system. The vulnerability was disclosed on April 23, 2019, affecting the Apport package which automatically generates crash reports for debugging. The issue specifically involves the mishandling of crash dumps originating from containers (Ubuntu Security, MITRE CVE).
The vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 Base Score of 3.3 (Low), with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N. This indicates a local attack vector, low attack complexity, low privileges required, no user interaction needed, unchanged scope, low confidentiality impact, and no impact on integrity or availability (Ubuntu Security).
When exploited, this vulnerability allows a local attacker to generate a crash report for a privileged process that is readable by an unprivileged user, potentially exposing sensitive information (Ubuntu Security Notice).
The vulnerability has been fixed in multiple Ubuntu versions with the following package updates: Ubuntu 19.10 (2.20.11-0ubuntu8.1), Ubuntu 19.04 (2.20.10-0ubuntu27.2), Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8), Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (2.20.1-0ubuntu2.20), and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm2). Users are advised to update their systems to these versions (Ubuntu Security Notice).
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