CVE-2016-9950 (GCVE-0-2016-9950)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-12-17 03:34
Modified
2024-08-06 03:07
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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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