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

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Published

Feb 17, 2016

Added

Feb 17, 2016

Modified

Mar 27, 2026

Description

Buffer overflow in the main_get_appheader function in xdelta3-main.h in xdelta3 before 3.0.9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted input file.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-xdelta3

References

CVE-2014-9765
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2014-9765
CWE-119
DEBIAN-DLA-417-1
DEBIAN-DSA-3484
EUVD-EUVD-2014-9571
NVD-CVE-2014-9765
UBUNTU-USN-2901-1
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2014-9571

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