Directory Traversal Affecting aptdaemon package, versions <0.43+bzr707-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.39% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-APTDAEMON-271460
  • published23 Feb 2011
  • disclosed23 Feb 2011

Introduced: 23 Feb 2011

CVE-2011-0725  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 aptdaemon to version 0.43+bzr707-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream aptdaemon package and not the aptdaemon package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in the org.debian.apt.UpdateCachePartially method in worker.py in Aptdaemon 0.40 in Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04 allows local users to read arbitrary files via a full pathname in the sources_list argument, related to the D-Bus interface.

CVSS Base Scores

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