Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package audit  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1810-AUDIT-668535
  • published6 Sept 2017
  • disclosed6 Sept 2017

Introduced: 6 Sep 2017

CVE-2015-5186  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.

NVD Description

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

Audit before 2.4.4 in Linux does not sanitize escape characters in filenames.