CVE-2016-9950: Path Traversal
First published: Sat Dec 17 2016(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Apport Project Apport | <=2.20.3 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | <=12.10 |
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- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- vendor/apport project
- canonical/apport project apport
- version/apport project apport/2.20.3
- vendor/canonical
- canonical/canonical ubuntu linux
- version/canonical ubuntu linux/12.10