Directory traversal vulnerability in the Ubuntu network-manager package for Ubuntu (vivid) before 0.9.10.0-4ubuntu15.1, Ubuntu 14.10 before 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu28.1, and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS before 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu7.1 allows local users to change the modem device configuration or read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the file name in a request to read modem device contexts (com.canonical.NMOfono.ReadImsiContexts).
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1322
Reference (s):
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/network-manager/%2Bbug/1449245
- UBUNTU:USN-2581-1
- URL: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2581-1