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Debian: DSA-5632-1 Critical: Composer Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey March 15, 2024
Scroller Debian
Revise your dependencies in the Composer environment to reduce vulnerabilities related to privilege elevation and hinder the execution of harmful scripts.
It was discovered that composer, a dependency manager for the PHP language, processed files in the local working directory
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security advisory security update privilege escalation bug fix Debian malicious code composer

Summary

For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed
in version 2.0.9-2+deb11u2.

For the stable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.5.5-1+deb12u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your composer packages.

For the detailed security status of composer please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/composer

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: composer
CVE ID: CVE-2024-24821

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security advisory security update privilege escalation bug fix Debian malicious code composer

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