CVE-2016-1579

Summary

CVECVE-2016-1579
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-04-22 16:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-09 23:17:00 UTC
DescriptionUDM 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-264

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Canonical Ubuntu Download Manager - All All All
Application Canonical Ubuntu Download Manager - All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
~phablet-team/ubuntu-download-manager/trunk : revision 359 MISC bazaar.launchpad.net Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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