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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: USN-847-1 Critical: Remote Code Execution in Devscripts

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Calendar Grey October 8, 2009
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Critical update released for Ubuntu addressing a vulnerability in devscripts, allowing potential remote code execution by malicious entities. Take immediate action!
Raphael Geissert discovered that uscan, a part of devscripts, did notproperly sanitize its input when processing pathnames

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security advisory critical code execution remote code execution Ubuntu devscripts

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