CPANSA-Dpkg-2014-0471: Dpkg vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2014-04-30T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2014-04-30T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score Severity
Original language Language en
Also referred to

Vulnerability Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the unpacking functionality in dpkg before 1.15.9, 1.16.x before 1.16.13, and 1.17.x before 1.17.8 allows remote attackers to write arbitrary files via a crafted source package, related to "C-style filename quoting."

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-0471

Vulnerability Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the unpacking functionality in dpkg before 1.15.9, 1.16.x before 1.16.13, and 1.17.x before 1.17.8 allows remote attackers to write arbitrary files via a crafted source package, related to "C-style filename quoting."

Weakness CWE-22 : Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
Dpkg less than 1.17.8
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
2.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N 5.0 Medium
Fixed

giterlizzi

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gdt@cpan.org

References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Wed Apr 30 00:00:00 2014 First release

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