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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS USN-891-1 Moderate: Lintian Code Execution Report

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Calendar Grey January 28, 2010
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Mitigating lintian security weaknesses in Ubuntu may enable remote code execution with user-level permissions on compromised installations.
It was discovered that lintian did not correctly validate certainfilenames when processing input

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