Code injection

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...

Path traversal

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...

Command injection

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...

CVE-2016-9949

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...

CVE-2016-9951

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...

CVE-2016-9950

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...

Immunity Canvas: APPORT_CRASH_HANDLER

Name| apportcrashhandler ---|--- CVE| CVE-2016-9949 Exploit Pack| CANVAS Description| Ubuntu Apport Crash Handler RCE Notes| CVE Name: CVE-2016-9949 Vendor: Ubuntu Notes: This module creates a crafted Apport crash file report that seems to be a simple text file. When the text file is double click...

CVE-2016-9951

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...

CVE-2016-9950

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...

CVE-2016-9949

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...

CVE-2016-9951

CVE-2016-9951 affects Apport prior to 2.20.4. A malicious crash file can contain a restart command in the RespawnCommand or ProcCmdline fields, which is executed if a user clicks the Relaunch button on the Apport prompt. The underlying issue is that crash file content can trigger arbitrary comman...

CVE-2016-9950

CVE-2016-9950 affects Apport before 2.20.4. A path traversal in the crash file handling (Package and SourcePackage fields) builds paths to /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/ and can be exploited to execute arbitrary Python files on the local system. Affected software is Apport; root cause is improp...

CVE-2016-9951

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...

CVE-2016-9949

CVE-2016-9949 affects Apport prior to 2.20.4. In apport/ui.py, Apport reads the CrashDB field and, if it begins with a '{', evaluates it as Python code, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary Python code via a crafted crash file. The vulnerability is demonstrated on Ubuntu desktop release...

CVE-2016-9950

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...

Remote Code Execution Bug Found in Ubuntu Quantal

A remote code execution bug has been patched in the default installation of Ubuntu Desktop affecting all default installations of Quantal version 12.10 and later. According to researcher Donncha O’Cearbhaill, the bug allows for code injection when a user opens a specially crafted malicious file...

Ubuntu’s Crash Report Tool Allows Remote Code Execution

No software is immune to being Hacked! Not even Linux. A security researcher has discovered a critical vulnerability in Ubuntu Linux operating system that would allow an attacker to remotely compromise a target computer using a malicious file. The vulnerability affects all default Ubuntu Linux...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Apport vulnerabilities (USN-3157-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3157-1 advisory. Donncha O Cearbhaill discovered that the crash file parser in Apport improperly treated the CrashDB field as python code. An attacker could u...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3157-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

USN-3157-1 apport vulnerabilities

Donncha O Cearbhaill discovered that the crash file parser in Apport improperly treated the CrashDB field as python code. An attacker could use this to convince a user to open a maliciously crafted crash file and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of that user. This issue only affected...