DSA-5147-1 dpkg -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-5147-1 dpkg -- security update

Date Reported:

25 May 2022

Affected Packages:

dpkg

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2022-1664.

More information:

Max Justicz reported a directory traversal vulnerability in Dpkg::Source::Archive in dpkg, the Debian package management system. This affects extracting untrusted source packages in the v2 and v3 source package formats that include a debian.tar.

For the oldstable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 1.19.8.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 1.20.10.

We recommend that you upgrade your dpkg packages.

For the detailed security status of dpkg please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/dpkg