<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201612-07"> <title>dpkg: Arbitrary code execution</title> <synopsis>A vulnerability was discovered in dpkg which could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">dpkg</product> <announced>2016-12-04</announced> <revised count="1">2016-12-04</revised> <bug>567258</bug> <access>local, remote</access> <affected> <package name="app-arch/dpkg" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">1.17.26</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">1.17.26</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>Debian package management system.</p> </background> <description> <p>Gentoo Linux developer, Hanno Böck, discovered an off-by-one error in the dpkg-deb component of dpkg, the Debian package management system, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p>An attacker could potentially execute arbitrary code if an user or an automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted Debian binary package (.deb). </p> </impact> <workaround> <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All dpkg users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-arch/dpkg-1.17.26" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-0860">CVE-2015-0860</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-02-25T07:05:41Z"> BlueKnight </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-12-04T11:01:29Z">whissi</metadata> </glsa>