USN-1068-1: Aptdaemon vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 10.10

Packages

• aptdaemon -

Details

Sergey Nizovtsev discovered that Aptdaemon incorrectly filtered certain
arguments when using its D-Bus interface. A local attacker could use this
flaw to bypass security restrictions and view sensitive information by
reading arbitrary files.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 10.10

• python-aptdaemon - 0.31+bzr506-0ubuntu6.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2011-0725