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dpkg -- stack-based buffer overflow

Affected packages
	dpkg	<	1.16.17
	dpkg	<	1.17.26
	dpkg	<	1.18.4

Details

VuXML ID	876768aa-ab1e-11e5-8a30-5453ed2e2b49
Discovery	2015-11-26
Entry	2015-12-25

Salvatore Bonaccorso reports:

Hanno Boeck discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the dpkg-deb component of dpkg, the Debian package management system. This flaw could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution if a user or an automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted Debian binary package (.deb) in the old style Debian binary package format.

[source]

References

CVE Name	CVE-2015-0860
URL	http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/26/3
URL	https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=f1aac7d933819569bf6f347c3c0d5a64a90bbce0