MGASA-2018-0352

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    MGASA-2018-0352

    Published: 23 Aug 2018Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated dpkg packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: Updated dpkg packages fix security vulnerability: A flaw was found dpkg which allows an attacker to perform a directory traversal by extracting with "dpkg-deb --raw-extract" a crafted .deb file with a /DEBIAN symlink (bdo#879982).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0352.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23411, https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=879982, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/64MG54Q347INMLYDW47XBYZQ3BQCXEXC/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: dpkg

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/dpkg?arch=source&distro=mageia-6

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.18.25-1.mga6

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
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    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High