CVE-2016-9951

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. A malicious Apport crash file can contain a restart command in `RespawnCommand` or `ProcCmdline` fields. This command will be executed if a user clicks the Relaunch button on the Apport prompt from the malicious crash file. The fix is to only show the Relaunch button on Apport crash files generated by local systems. The Relaunch button will be hidden when crash files are opened directly in Apport-GTK.

Scores

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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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