cvelist/2016/9xxx/CVE-2016-9950.json

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                "value": "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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                "name": "https://github.com/DonnchaC/ubuntu-apport-exploitation",
                "refsource": "MISC",
                "url": "https://github.com/DonnchaC/ubuntu-apport-exploitation"
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                "name": "https://donncha.is/2016/12/compromising-ubuntu-desktop/",
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