CVE-2016-9949

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Dec 17, 2016
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Dec 14, 2016

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.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://github.com/DonnchaC/ubuntu-apport-exploitation
https://donncha.is/2016/12/compromising-ubuntu-desktop/
https://bugs.launchpad.net/apport/+bug/1648806
95011vdb-entry
USN-3157-1vendor-advisory
40937exploit

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