CVE-2011-0725

The CVE-2011-0725 entry concerns Aptdaemon 0.40 on Ubuntu 10.10/11.04. Affected component: org.debian.apt.UpdateCachePartially (worker.py). Root cause: improper filtering of certain D‑Bus arguments via the Aptdaemon interface, enabling an absolute path traversal. Impact: local users can read arbi...

Ubuntu 10.10 : aptdaemon vulnerability (USN-1068-1)

Sergey Nizovtsev discovered that Aptdaemon incorrectly filtered certain arguments when using its D-Bus interface. A local attacker could use this flaw to bypass security restrictions and view sensitive information by reading arbitrary files. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the...

USN-1068-1: Aptdaemon vulnerability

Sergey Nizovtsev discovered that Aptdaemon incorrectly filtered certain arguments when using its D-Bus interface. A local attacker could use this flaw to bypass security restrictions and view sensitive information by reading arbitrary files...