Published: 20/01/2015 Updated: 08/09/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

VMScore: 606

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Multiple format string vulnerabilities in the parse_error_msg function in parsehelp.c in dpkg prior to 1.17.22 allow remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the (1) package or (2) architecture name.

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Debian Bug report logs - #768485 dpkg: CVE-2014-8625: format string vulnerability Package: dpkg; Maintainer for dpkg is Dpkg Developers <debian-dpkg@listsdebianorg>; Source for dpkg is src:dpkg (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debianorg> Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 18:45:02 UTC Severity: normal Tag ...

CWE-134 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/539 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/1389135 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/622 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768485 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/551 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157387.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98551 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768485 https://nvd.nist.gov

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