{"id":"USN-3157-1","summary":"apport vulnerabilities","details":"Donncha O Cearbhaill discovered that the crash file parser in Apport\nimproperly treated the CrashDB field as python code. An attacker could\nuse this to convince a user to open a maliciously crafted crash file\nand execute arbitrary code with the privileges of that user. This issue\nonly affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-9949)\n\nDonncha O Cearbhaill discovered that Apport did not properly sanitize the\nPackage and SourcePackage fields in crash files before processing package\nspecific hooks. An attacker could use this to convince a user to open a\nmaliciously crafted crash file and execute arbitrary code with the\nprivileges of that user. (CVE-2016-9950)\n\nDonncha O Cearbhaill discovered that Apport would offer to restart an\napplication based on the contents of the RespawnCommand or ProcCmdline\nfields in a crash file. An attacker could use this to convince a user to\nopen a maliciously crafted crash file and execute arbitrary code with the\nprivileges of that user. (CVE-2016-9951)\n","modified":"2026-02-10T04:41:03Z","published":"2016-12-14T22:15:07Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9949","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9950","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9951"],"upstream":["CVE-2016-9949","CVE-2016-9950","CVE-2016-9951","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9949","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9950","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9951"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3157-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9949"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9950"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9951"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"apport","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/apport@2.14.1-0ubuntu3.23?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.14.1-0ubuntu3.23"}]}],"versions":["2.12.5-0ubuntu2","2.12.6-0ubuntu1","2.12.7-0ubuntu1","2.12.7-0ubuntu2","2.12.7-0ubuntu3","2.12.7-0ubuntu6","2.13.1-0ubuntu1","2.13.1-0ubuntu2","2.13.2-0ubuntu2","2.13.2-0ubuntu3","2.13.2-0ubuntu4","2.13.2-0ubuntu5","2.13.3-0ubuntu1","2.14-0ubuntu1","2.14.1-0ubuntu1","2.14.1-0ubuntu2","2.14.1-0ubuntu3","2.14.1-0ubuntu3.1","2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2","2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3","2.14.1-0ubuntu3.4","2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5","2.14.1-0ubuntu3.6","2.14.1-0ubuntu3.7","2.14.1-0ubuntu3.8","2.14.1-0ubuntu3.9","2.14.1-0ubuntu3.10","2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11","2.14.1-0ubuntu3.12","2.14.1-0ubuntu3.13","2.14.1-0ubuntu3.15","2.14.1-0ubuntu3.16","2.14.1-0ubuntu3.18","2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19","2.14.1-0ubuntu3.20","2.14.1-0ubuntu3.21"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"apport","binary_version":"2.14.1-0ubuntu3.23"},{"binary_name":"apport-gtk","binary_version":"2.14.1-0ubuntu3.23"},{"binary_name":"apport-kde","binary_version":"2.14.1-0ubuntu3.23"},{"binary_name":"apport-noui","binary_version":"2.14.1-0ubuntu3.23"},{"binary_name":"apport-retrace","binary_version":"2.14.1-0ubuntu3.23"},{"binary_name":"apport-valgrind","binary_version":"2.14.1-0ubuntu3.23"},{"binary_name":"dh-apport","binary_version":"2.14.1-0ubuntu3.23"},{"binary_name":"python-apport","binary_version":"2.14.1-0ubuntu3.23"},{"binary_name":"python-problem-report","binary_version":"2.14.1-0ubuntu3.23"},{"binary_name":"python3-apport","binary_version":"2.14.1-0ubuntu3.23"},{"binary_name":"python3-problem-report","binary_version":"2.14.1-0ubuntu3.23"}],"availability":"No 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