USN-3310-1

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    USN-3310-1

    Published: 6 Jun 2017Last Modified: 10 Feb 2026

    Summary: lintian vulnerability

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3310-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8829

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: lintian

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.5.43ubuntu0.1

    Affected versions

    2.5.36.1ubuntu2
    2.5.38.1ubuntu1
    2.5.43~ubuntu1
    2.5.43

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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