The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) has disclosed two significant local information disclosure vulnerabilities—CVE-2025-5054 and CVE-2025-4598—impacting the core-dump handlers Apport and systemd-coredump on millions of Linux systems. These race-condition vulnerabilities could enable local attackers to extract highly sensitive data, including password hashes, by manipulating the crash reporting mechanisms embedded in popular distributions such as Ubuntu, […]

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