Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in uscan, a tool to scan upstream sites for new releases of packages, which is part of the devscripts package. An attacker controlling a website from which uscan would attempt to download a source tarball could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running uscan. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project id CVE-2013-6888 has been assigned to identify them. For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 2.12.6+deb7u2. For the testing distribution (jessie) and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.13.9. We recommend that you upgrade your devscripts packages.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in uscan, a tool to scan upstream sites for new releases of packages, which is part of the devscripts package. An attacker controlling a website from which uscan would attempt to download a source tarball could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running uscan.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project id CVE-2013-6888 has been assigned to identify them.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 2.12.6+deb7u2.
For the testing distribution (jessie) and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.13.9.
We recommend that you upgrade your devscripts packages.
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