CVE-2015-0860

EPSS 4.4%

dpkg - security update

Published: 12/3/2015Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2015-0860

Description

Off-by-one error in the extracthalf function in dpkg-deb/extract.c in the dpkg-deb component in Debian dpkg 1.16.x before 1.16.17 and 1.17.x before 1.17.26 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the archive magic version number in an "old-style" Debian binary package, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.

Affected packages (2)

References (1)