CVE-2016-9949

Published December 17th, 2016

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CVSS v3

N/A

CVSS v2

9.3

HIGH

Affected

PROJECT

Description

An issue was discovered in Apport before 2.20.4. In apport/ui.py, Apport reads the CrashDB field and it then evaluates the field as Python code if it begins with a "{". This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Python code.

DonnchaC/ubuntu-apport-exploitation

This project contains a PoC and exploit generator for a code execution bug in Ubuntu's Apport crash reporter

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