Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nsis (opens in a new tab)
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- published1 Oct 2018
- disclosed1 Oct 2018
Introduced: 1 Oct 2018
CVE-2015-9268 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nsis package and not the nsis package as distributed by Ubuntu.
Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS) before 2.49 has unsafe implicit linking against Version.dll. In other words, there is no protection mechanism in which a wrapper function resolves the dependency at an appropriate time during runtime.