{"id":"CVE-2015-1324","aliases":["EUVD-2015-1465","GHSA-frh2-w2hj-959j","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1324","USN-2609-1"],"status":"published","title":"Apport before 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1 as packaged in Ubuntu 15.04, before 2.14.70ubuntu8.5 as packaged...","description":"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 by leveraging incorrect handling of permissions when generating core dumps for setuid 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A\nlocal attacker could use this issue to gain elevated privileges.\n(CVE-2015-1324)\n\nPhilip Pettersson discovered that Apport contained race conditions\nresulting core dumps to be generated with incorrect permissions in\narbitrary locations. A local attacker could use this issue to gain elevated\nprivileges. (CVE-2015-1325)\n","status":"published","published":"2015-05-21T17:08:31Z","modified":"2026-02-10T04:40:54Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T16:58:09.227524Z"}]}}