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CVE-2015-0860

Date: December 3, 2015

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (10)

https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/dpkg-deb/extract.c?id=e65aa3db04eb908c9507d5d356a95cedb890814d
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-0860
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-07
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=798324
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-0860
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-0860
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3407
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2820-1
https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/30-Stack-overflows-and-out-of-bounds-read-in-dpkg-Debian.html
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2015-0860

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Numeric Errors

CWE-189

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): LOW
Integrity (I): LOW
Availability (A): LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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