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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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2016-12-17T03:34:00

Updated: 2017-01-04T14:57:01

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


Link: CVE-2016-9950

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2017-01-07T03:00:45.980


Link: CVE-2016-9950

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