Arbitrary Code Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package devscripts  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-DEVSCRIPTS-614561
  • published11 Jul 2018
  • disclosed1 Jul 2018

Introduced: 1 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-13043  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream devscripts package and not the devscripts package as distributed by Ubuntu.

scripts/grep-excuses.pl in Debian devscripts through 2.18.3 allows code execution through unsafe YAML loading because YAML::Syck is used without a configuration that prevents unintended blessing.