ubuntu · CVE-2016-0634

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Priority: low Published: 2016-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:50:35 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-0634 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (bash), 14 status rows across 14 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 9, released 4, ignored 1.

Description:

The expansion of '\h' in the prompt string in bash 4.3 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters placed in 'hostname' of a machine.

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