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.
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34441
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- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-6297
- 9/core/dpkg-1.22.21-1.mga9
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