CVE-2022-1664

CRITICAL9.8EPSS 0.74%

dpkg - security update

Published: 5/26/2022Modified: 12/3/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2022-1664

Description

Dpkg::Source::Archive in dpkg, the Debian package management system, before version 1.21.8, 1.20.10, 1.19.8, 1.18.26 is prone to a directory traversal vulnerability. When extracting untrusted source packages in v2 and v3 source package formats that include a debian.tar, the in-place extraction can lead to directory traversal situations on specially crafted orig.tar and debian.tar tarballs.

Affected packages (4)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1CRITICAL9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (2)