Detections
Analytics
CVE-2016-9950
high
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.
References
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40937/
https://github.com/DonnchaC/ubuntu-apport-exploitation
https://bugs.launchpad.net/apport/+bug/1648806