William Grant discovered that dpkg-source did not safely apply diffs
when unpacking source packages. If a user or an automated system were
tricked into unpacking a specially crafted source package, a remote
attacker could modify files outside the target unpack directory, leading
to a denial of service or potentially gaining access to the system.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ubuntu | 9.10 | noarch | dpkg-dev | < 1.15.4ubuntu2.1 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 9.10 | noarch | dpkg | < 1.15.4ubuntu2.1 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 9.10 | noarch | dselect | < 1.15.4ubuntu2.1 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 9.04 | noarch | dpkg-dev | < 1.14.24ubuntu1.1 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 9.04 | noarch | dpkg | < 1.14.24ubuntu1.1 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 9.04 | noarch | dselect | < 1.14.24ubuntu1.1 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 8.10 | noarch | dpkg-dev | < 1.14.20ubuntu6.3 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 8.10 | noarch | dpkg | < 1.14.20ubuntu6.3 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 8.10 | noarch | dselect | < 1.14.20ubuntu6.3 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 8.04 | noarch | dpkg-dev | < 1.14.16.6ubuntu4.1 | UNKNOWN |