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USN-3310-1: lintian vulnerability

USN-3310-1: lintian vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3310-1

6th June, 2017

lintian vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

Summary

lintian could be made to run programs if it processed a specially crafted
package.

Software description

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.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:

Ubuntu 17.04:
lintian

2.5.50.1ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 16.10:
lintian

2.5.48ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
lintian

2.5.43ubuntu0.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2017-8829

Source: USN-3310-1: lintian vulnerability

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