1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-3310-1

USN-3310-1: lintian vulnerability

Publication date

6 June 2017

Overview

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

Releases

Packages

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.

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

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
17.04 zesty lintian –  2.5.50.1ubuntu0.1
16.10 yakkety lintian –  2.5.48ubuntu0.1
16.04 xenial lintian –  2.5.43ubuntu0.1

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