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Mageia 8: MGASA-2022-0327 Moderate: Dpkg Malicious Package Threat

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Calendar Grey September 16, 2022
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia 2022-0328 addresses a vulnerability in apt that permitted a malicious package to execute scripts beyond its designated folder.
A malicious source package could write files outside the unpack directory

Summary

A malicious source package could write files outside the unpack directory. (CVE-2022-1664)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30481

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2022/msg00115.html

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5446-1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-1664

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory file access dpkg malicious package Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/dpkg-1.20.10-3.mga8

Publication date: 16 Sep 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0327.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-1664

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory file access dpkg malicious package Mageia

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