6.8
CVSSv2

CVE-2017-8829

Published: 08/05/2017 Updated: 16/05/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 605
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Deserialization vulnerability in lintian up to and including 2.5.50.3 allows malicious users to trigger code execution by requesting a review of a source package with a crafted YAML file.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #861958 lintian: insecure YAML validation [CVE-2017-8829] Package: lintian; Maintainer for lintian is Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debianorg>; Source for lintian is src:lintian (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilknet> Date: Sat, 6 May 2017 13:33:01 UTC S ...
lintian could be made to run programs if it processed a specially crafted package ...