PT-2020-14596

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions apt affected versions not specified Description The issue is related to the lack of input validation on the Locale property in an apt transaction. This allows an unprivileged user to supply a full path to a writable directory, enabling aptd to...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-15703

There is no input validation on the Locale property in an apt transaction. An unprivileged user can supply a full path to a writable directory, which lets aptd read a file as root. Having a symlink in place results in an error message if the file exists, and no error otherwise. This way an...