Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-1325 - Race Condition vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE Integrity impact
COMPLETE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
Race condition in 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.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| OS | 4 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Leveraging Race Conditions This attack targets a race condition occurring when multiple processes access and manipulate the same resource concurrently and the outcome of the execution depends on the particular order in which the access takes place. The attacker can leverage a race condition by "running the race", modifying the resource and modifying the normal execution flow. For instance a race condition can occur while accessing a file, the attacker can trick the system by replacing the original file with his version and cause the system to read the malicious file.
- Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions This attack targets a race condition occurring between the time of check (state) for a resource and the time of use of a resource. The typical example is the file access. The attacker can leverage a file access race condition by "running the race", meaning that he would modify the resource between the first time the target program accesses the file and the time the target program uses the file. During that period of time, the attacker could do something such as replace the file and cause an escalation of privilege.
Exploit-Db
| description | Apport/Ubuntu - Local Root Race Condition. CVE-2015-1325. Local exploit for linux platform |
| file | exploits/linux/local/37088.c |
| id | EDB-ID:37088 |
| last seen | 2016-02-04 |
| modified | 2015-05-23 |
| platform | linux |
| port | |
| published | 2015-05-23 |
| reporter | rebel |
| source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/37088/ |
| title | Apport/Ubuntu - Local Root Race Condition |
| type | local |
Nessus
| NASL family | Ubuntu Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | UBUNTU_USN-2609-1.NASL |
| description | Sander Bos discovered that Apport incorrectly handled permissions when the system was configured to generate core dumps for setuid binaries. A local attacker could use this issue to gain elevated privileges. (CVE-2015-1324) Philip Pettersson discovered that Apport contained race conditions resulting core dumps to be generated with incorrect permissions in arbitrary locations. A local attacker could use this issue to gain elevated privileges. (CVE-2015-1325). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 83777 |
| published | 2015-05-22 |
| reporter | Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2015-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/83777 |
| title | Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS / 14.10 / 15.04 : apport vulnerabilities (USN-2609-1) |
| code | |