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Mageia 9 MGASA-2025-0204 critical: dpkg directory permissions DoS

mageia
Calendar Grey July 11, 2025
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia's package management system has a significant vulnerability; lack of proper file access controls could lead to a potential service interruption. Update urgently!
It was discovered that dpkg-deb does not properly sanitize directory permissions when extracting a control member into a temporary directory, which is documented as being a safe op...

Summary

It was discovered that dpkg-deb does not properly sanitize directory permissions when extracting a control member into a temporary directory, which is documented as being a safe operation even on untrusted data. This may result in leaving temporary files behind on cleanup. Given automated and repeated execution of dpkg-deb commands on adversarial .deb packages or with well compressible files, placed inside a directory with permissions not allowing removal by a non-root user, this can end up in a DoS scenario due to causing disk quota exhaustion or disk full conditions.

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34441

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- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-6297

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/dpkg-1.22.21-1.mga9

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Publication date: 11 Jul 2025
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0204.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2025-6297

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