Numeric Errors Affecting dpkg package, versions <1.18.4
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN12-DPKG-1544655
- published 3 Dec 2015
- disclosed 3 Dec 2015
Introduced: 3 Dec 2015
CVE-2015-0860 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:12 dpkg to version 1.18.4 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream dpkg package and not the dpkg package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.
Off-by-one error in the extracthalf function in dpkg-deb/extract.c in the dpkg-deb component in Debian dpkg 1.16.x before 1.16.17 and 1.17.x before 1.17.26 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the archive magic version number in an "old-style" Debian binary package, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-0860
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=798324
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3407
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-07
- https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/dpkg-deb/extract.c?id=e65aa3db04eb908c9507d5d356a95cedb890814d
- https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/30-Stack-overflows-and-out-of-bounds-read-in-dpkg-Debian.html
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-0860
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2820-1