CVE-2022-28653 Denial of service in Apport

What is CVE-2022-28653?

CVE-2022-28653 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ltd. Apport, published on 31 Jan 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Users can consume unlimited disk space in /var/crash

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-28653?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Canonical Apport.

How do I fix CVE-2022-28653?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-28653 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2022-28653 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-28653 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ltd. Apport

• CVE-2021-25682 apport improperly parses /proc/pid/status High 8.8
• CVE-2021-25683 apport improperly parses /proc/pid/stat High 8.8
• CVE-2021-25684 apport can be stalled by reading a FIFO High 8.8
• CVE-2021-3899 Race condition in Apport High 7.8
• CVE-2022-1242 Other in Apport High 7.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-5jgw-fw55-g7x3, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-28653.