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CVE-2016-9950

An issue was discovered in Apport before 2.20.4.

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Summary

An issue was discovered in Apport before 2.20.4. There is a path traversal issue in the Apport crash file "Package" and "SourcePackage" fields. These fields are used to build a path to the package specific hook files in the /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/ directory. An attacker can exploit this path traversal to execute arbitrary Python files from the local system.

Timeline

  1. Public exploit on Exploit-DB

    EDB-40937

  2. CVE published
  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

References 7

GitHub · DonnchaC/ubuntu-apport-exploitation

donncha.is

bugs.launchpad.net

securityfocus.com

ubuntu.com

Exploit-DB