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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:35:20 -0700
From: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@...gle.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Assign a CVE Identifier <cve-assign@...re.org>
Subject: Re: Re: Problems in automatic crash analysis frameworks

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Marc Deslauriers
<marc.deslauriers@...onical.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2015-04-14 11:55 AM, cve-assign@...re.org wrote:
>> This is mostly a question for the persons who assigned CVE-2015-1318
>> and CVE-2015-1862. Should these CVE assignments be interpreted to
>> mean:
>>
>>   CVE-2015-1318 - in Apport, an unprivileged user can use a
>>                   namespace-based attack because there is an execve by
>>                   root after a chroot into a user-specified directory
>
> Yes, I assigned CVE-2015-1318 to that specific issue in Apport.
>
> Marc.

It looks like this is the patch for Apport:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/revision/2943#data/apport

It's far more complicated than I expected, and not obviously correct.
It could probably use some review, I'll think about it today.

Tavis.

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