vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3310-1 (CVE-2017-8829): lintian vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 8, 2017
Added
Jun 6, 2017
Modified
Apr 25, 2025

Description

Jakub Wilk discovered that lintian incorrectly handled deserializing
certain YAML files. If a user or automated system were tricked into running
lintian on a specially crafted package, a remote attacker could possibly
use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-lintian
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