1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-891-1

USN-891-1: lintian vulnerabilities

Publication date

28 January 2010

Overview

lintian vulnerabilities

Releases

Packages

Details

Raphael Geissert discovered that lintian did not correctly validate
certain filenames when processing input. If a user or an automated system
were tricked into running lintian on a specially crafted set of files,
a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

Raphael Geissert discovered that lintian did not correctly validate
certain filenames when processing input. If a user or an automated system
were tricked into running lintian on a specially crafted set of files,
a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect 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
9.10 karmic lintian –  2.2.17ubuntu1.1
9.04 jaunty lintian –  2.2.5ubuntu1.1
8.10 intrepid lintian –  1.24.3ubuntu0.1
8.04 hardy lintian –  1.23.46ubuntu0.1
6.06 dapper lintian –  1.23.16ubuntu2.1

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