An issue was discovered in Apport before 2.20.4. A malicious Apport crash file can contain a restart command in `RespawnCommand` or…

Description

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 Relaunch button on Apport crash files generated by local systems. The Relaunch button will be hidden when crash files are opened directly in Apport-GTK.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

6.7% · top 6.1% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-284 (opens in a new tab)Other CVEs with CWE-284

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (6)

• https://github.com/DonnchaC/ubuntu-apport-exploitation (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://donncha.is/2016/12/compromising-ubuntu-desktop/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/apport/+bug/1648806 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 95011 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• USN-3157-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• 40937 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2016-9951](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2016-9951.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2016-9951)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 03:07 UTC.