Security Advisory

CVE-2016-9949

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-12-17 03:34:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 03:07:31
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.