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New Linux Vulnerabilities Expose Password Hashes via Core Dumps
Vulnerabilities mentioned
All| CVE | Vulnerability | CVSS | EPSS | Signals | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-4598 | systemd-coredump: This flaw allows an attacker to force a SUID process to crash and replace it with a non-SUID binary to access the original's… | 4.7 | 1% | PoC ×2 | |
| CVE-2025-5054 | 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 | 4.7 | <1% | PoC |
From the original article
2 min read at infosecurity-magazine.com
Two local information-disclosure vulnerabilities have been identified in popular Linux crash-reporting tools, allowing attackers to access sensitive system data. The vulnerabilities, uncovered by the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU), impact Apport on Ubuntu and systemd-coredump on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Fedora.
By Alessandro Mascellino · infosecurity-magazine.com
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