vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-2901-1 (CVE-2014-9765): xdelta3 vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 17, 2016
Added
Feb 17, 2016
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

It was discovered that xdelta3 incorrectly handled certain files. If a user
or automated system were tricked into processing a specially-crafted file,
a remote attacker could use this issue to cause xdelta3 to crash, resulting
in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-xdelta3
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