CVE-2016-9950

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. 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.

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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