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CVE-2015-0860

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Description

Off-by-one error in the extracthalf function in dpkg-deb/extract.c in the dpkg-deb component in Debian dpkg 1.16.x before 1.16.17 and 1.17.x before 1.17.26 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the archive magic version number in an "old-style" Debian binary package, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published12/3/2015

Last Modified4/12/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

canonical:ubuntu_linuxdebian:dpkg

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-189

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3407(security@debian.org)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2820-1(security@debian.org)

https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/dpkg-deb/extract.c?id=e65aa3db04eb908c9507d5d356a95cedb890814d(security@debian.org)

https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/30-Stack-overflows-and-out-of-bounds-read-in-dpkg-Debian.html(security@debian.org)

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=798324(security@debian.org)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-07(security@debian.org)

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3407(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2820-1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/dpkg-deb/extract.c?id=e65aa3db04eb908c9507d5d356a95cedb890814d(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/30-Stack-overflows-and-out-of-bounds-read-in-dpkg-Debian.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=798324(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-07(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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