CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-1579

Published: Apr 22, 2019 | Modified: Oct 09, 2019
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

UDM provides support for running commands after a download is completed, this is currently made use of for click package installation. This functionality was not restricted to unconfined applications. Before UDM version 1.2+16.04.20160408-0ubuntu1 any confined application could make use of the UDM C++ API to run arbitrary commands in an unconfined environment as the phablet user.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Ubuntu_download_manager Canonical - (including) - (including)
Ubuntu-download-manager Ubuntu trusty *
Ubuntu-download-manager Ubuntu vivid/stable-phone-overlay *
Ubuntu-download-manager Ubuntu wily *
Ubuntu-download-manager Ubuntu xenial *
Ubuntu-download-manager Ubuntu yakkety *
Ubuntu-download-manager Ubuntu zesty *

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