USN-5446-2: dpkg vulnerability<\/p>\n
USN-5446-1 fixed a vulnerability in dpkg. This update provides
\nthe corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.<\/p>\n
Original advisory details:<\/p>\n
Max Justicz discovered that dpkg incorrectly handled unpacking certain USN-5446-2: dpkg vulnerability USN-5446-1 fixed a vulnerability in dpkg. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Max Justicz discovered that dpkg incorrectly handled unpacking certain source packages. If a user or an automated system were tricked into unpacking a specially crafted source package, a remote attacker could modify files outside the target unpack directory, leading to a denial of service or potentially gaining access to the system. Source: USN-5446-2: dpkg vulnerability<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[586],"tags":[587],"class_list":["post-46530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu-usn","tag-ubuntu-usn"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46531,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46530\/revisions\/46531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n source packages. If a user or an automated system were tricked into
\n unpacking a specially crafted source package, a remote attacker could
\n modify files outside the target unpack directory, leading to a denial of
\n service or potentially gaining access to the system.
\nSource: USN-5446-2: dpkg vulnerability<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"