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Debian Moderate: DSA-2549-1 Security Issues in Devscripts

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Calendar Grey September 15, 2012
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Several weaknesses found in devscripts raise alarming security issues regarding Debian package management. Immediate update recommended for protection.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in devscripts, a set of scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in devscripts, a set of
scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier.
The following Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project ids have
been assigned to identify them:

CVE-2012-2240:

Raphael Geissert discovered that dscverify does not perform
sufficient validation and does not properly escape arguments to
external commands, allowing a remote attacker (as when dscverify is
used by dget) to execute arbitrary code.

CVE-2012-2241:

Raphael Geissert discovered that dget allows an attacker to delete
arbitrary files when processing a specially-crafted .dsc or
.changes file, due to insuficient input validation.

CVE-2012-2242:

Raphael Geissert discovered that dget does not properly escape
arguments to external commands when processing .dsc and .changes
files, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code.
This issue is limited with the fix for CVE-2012-2241, and had
already been fixed in version 2...

Read the Full Advisory

Package: devscripts
CVE ID: CVE-2012-2240 CVE-2012-2241 CVE-2012-2242 CVE-2012-3500

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