Absolute Path Traversal Vulnerability in Aptdaemon 0.40

CVE-2011-0725 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

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.

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