New Linux Flaws Allow Password Hash Theft via Core Dumps in Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora

New Linux Flaws Allow Password Hash Theft via Core Dumps in Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora

Two information disclosure flaws have been identified in apport and systemd-coredump, the core dump handlers in Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora, according to the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU).
Tracked as CVE-2025-5054 and CVE-2025-4598, both vulnerabilities are race condition bugs that could enable a local attacker to obtain access to access sensitive information. Tools like

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