CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-8625
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-01-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-134
Description
Multiple format string vulnerabilities in the parse_error_msg function in parsehelp.c in dpkg before 1.17.22 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the (1) package or (2) architecture name.
Affected configurations
• debian dpkg (<= 1.17.21)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String weakness
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157387.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/539 Exploit
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/551 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/622 seclists.org
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768485 Exploit
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/1389135 Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98551 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157387.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/539 Exploit
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/551 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/622 seclists.org
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768485 Exploit
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/1389135 Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98551 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com