Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:2017166670000000
Revision Date:2017-11-08Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-16667 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - medium.
Description:backintime (aka Back in Time) before 1.1.24 did improper escaping/quoting of file paths used as arguments to the 'notify-send' command, leading to some parts of file paths being executed as shell commands within an os.system call in qt4/plugins/notifyplugin.py. This could allow an attacker to craft an unreadable file with a specific name to run arbitrary shell commands.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-16667
Platform(s):Ubuntu 18.10
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) is installed.
  • AND backintime package in cosmic, is related to the CVE in some way and has been fixed (note: '1.1.24-0.1').
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