SecurityX Report: Race Condition Flaws in Apport and systemd-coredump Expose Sensitive Data on Major Linux Distributions
Two newly disclosed vulnerabilities affecting Linux crash-handling utilities—Apport and systemd-coredump—pose a risk of sensitive data leakage on systems running Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, and potentially others. The flaws, stemming from race conditions, may allow local attackers to extract contents of core dumps generated by privileged SUID processes. The issues are tracked as: 🛠 […]