Access Restriction Bypass Affecting dpkg package, versions [,1.9.21]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-DPKG-2382830
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed8 Jun 2010
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Jun 2010

CVE-2004-2768  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for dpkg.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass dpkg 1.9.21 does not properly reset the metadata of a file during replacement of the file in a package upgrade, which might allow local users to gain privileges by creating a hard link to a vulnerable (1) setuid file, (2) setgid file, or (3) device, a related issue to CVE-2010-2059.

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