Race condition in Canonical apport up to and including 2.32.0 allows a local attacker to leak sensitive information via PID-reuse by leveraging namespaces.
When handling a crash, the function `_check_global_pid_and_forward`, which detects if the crashing process resided in a container, was being called before `consistency_checks`, which attempts to detect if the crashing process had been replaced. Because of this, if a process crashed and was quickly replaced with a containerized one, apport could be made to forward the core dump to the container, potentially leaking sensitive information. `consistency_checks` is now being called before `_check_global_pid_and_forward`. Additionally, given that the PID-reuse race condition cannot be reliably detected from userspace alone, crashes are only forwarded to containers if the kernel provided a pidfd, or if the crashing process was unprivileged (i.e., if dump mode == 1).
References
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https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-5054 | Third Party Advisory |
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7545-1 | Third Party Advisory |
https://www.qualys.com/2025/05/29/apport-coredump/apport-coredump.txt | Exploit Mitigation Third Party Advisory |
Configurations
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History
22 Aug 2025, 19:36
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CPE | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:canonical:apport:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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References | () https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-5054 - Third Party Advisory | |
References | () https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7545-1 - Third Party Advisory | |
References | () https://www.qualys.com/2025/05/29/apport-coredump/apport-coredump.txt - Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory | |
Summary |
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Canonical
Canonical apport Canonical ubuntu Linux |
30 May 2025, 18:15
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Information
Published : 2025-05-30 18:15
Updated : 2025-08-22 19:36
NVD link : CVE-2025-5054
Mitre link : CVE-2025-5054
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-5054
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Products Affected
canonical
- apport
- ubuntu_linux
CWE
CWE-362
Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')