usn-2413-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2014-11-20 20:57
Modified
2026-04-22 07:36
Summary
apparmor vulnerability
Details

An AppArmor policy miscompilation flaw was discovered in apparmor_parser. Under certain circumstances, a malicious application could use this flaw to perform operations that are not allowed by AppArmor policy. The flaw may also prevent applications from accessing resources that are allowed by AppArmor policy.

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  "affected": [
    {
      "database_specific": {
        "cves_map": {
          "cves": [
            {
              "id": "CVE-2014-1424",
              "severity": [
                {
                  "score": "medium",
                  "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
        }
      },
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "apparmor",
            "binary_version": "2.8.95~2430-0ubuntu5.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "apparmor-docs",
            "binary_version": "2.8.95~2430-0ubuntu5.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "apparmor-easyprof",
            "binary_version": "2.8.95~2430-0ubuntu5.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "apparmor-notify",
            "binary_version": "2.8.95~2430-0ubuntu5.1"
          },
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            "binary_name": "apparmor-profiles",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "apparmor-utils",
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          {
            "binary_name": "libapache2-mod-apparmor",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libapparmor-perl",
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          {
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpam-apparmor",
            "binary_version": "2.8.95~2430-0ubuntu5.1"
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          {
            "binary_name": "python-apparmor",
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          },
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      },
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            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.8.95~2430-0ubuntu5.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "2.8.0-0ubuntu31",
        "2.8.0-0ubuntu32",
        "2.8.0-0ubuntu33",
        "2.8.0-0ubuntu34",
        "2.8.0-0ubuntu35",
        "2.8.0-0ubuntu37",
        "2.8.0-0ubuntu38",
        "2.8.95~2430-0ubuntu1",
        "2.8.95~2430-0ubuntu2",
        "2.8.95~2430-0ubuntu3",
        "2.8.95~2430-0ubuntu5"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "An AppArmor policy miscompilation flaw was discovered in apparmor_parser. Under\ncertain circumstances, a malicious application could use this flaw to perform\noperations that are not allowed by AppArmor policy. The flaw may also prevent\napplications from accessing resources that are allowed by AppArmor policy.\n",
  "id": "USN-2413-1",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:36:32Z",
  "published": "2014-11-20T20:57:09Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2413-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1424"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "summary": "apparmor vulnerability",
  "upstream": [
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1424"
  ]
}



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