dpkg: Arbitrary code execution A vulnerability was discovered in dpkg which could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution. dpkg 2016-12-04 2016-12-04 567258 local, remote 1.17.26 1.17.26

Debian package management system.

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.

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).

There is no known workaround at this time.

All dpkg users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-arch/dpkg-1.17.26" CVE-2015-0860 BlueKnight whissi