PT-2011-1368

CVE-2010-1679

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Published

2011-01-11

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Updated

2017-08-17

Description by

CVSS 2.0
6.8
Medium
MetricsAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions dpkg versions prior to 1.14.31 dpkg version 1.15.x
Description A directory traversal issue exists, allowing user-assisted remote attackers to modify arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in a patch for a source-format 3.0 package.
Recommendations For dpkg versions prior to 1.14.31, update to version 1.14.31 or later. For dpkg version 1.15.x, consider disabling the use of source-format 3.0 packages until a patch is available.
Exploitability
Fix
Impacts
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (\'Path Traversal\')
Related identifiers
CVE-2010-1679
DSA-2142-1
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