CVE-2011-0725

Published: 22 February 2011

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.

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
aptdaemon Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	dapper	Does not exist
	hardy	Does not exist
	karmic	Not vulnerable (0.10+bzr264-0ubuntu1)
	lucid	Not vulnerable (0.11+bzr345-0ubuntu4.1)
	maverick	Released (0.31+bzr506-0ubuntu6.1)
	upstream	Needs triage

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1068-1
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-0725
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Bugs

https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/722228

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