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.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-10737 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3157-1 Apport vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T03:07:31.640Z

Reserved: 2016-12-14T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-9950

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-12-17T03:59:00.327

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-9950

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