Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting reportbug package, versions <6.5.0+nmu1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.7% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-REPORTBUG-326317
  • published6 Aug 2014
  • disclosed6 Aug 2014

Introduced: 6 Aug 2014

CVE-2014-0479  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 reportbug to version 6.5.0+nmu1 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:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

reportbug before 6.4.4+deb7u1 and 6.5.x before 6.5.0+nmu1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via vectors related to compare_versions and reportbug/checkversions.py.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1