Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting reportbug package, versions <3.41


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-REPORTBUG-326330
  • published11 Jun 2008
  • disclosed11 Jun 2008

Introduced: 11 Jun 2008

CVE-2008-2230  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 reportbug to version 3.41 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream reportbug package and not the reportbug package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in (1) reportbug 3.8 and 3.31, and (2) reportbug-ng before 0.2008.06.04, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a malicious module file in the current working directory.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1