Vulnerability CVE-2014-8625
Published: 2015-01-20   Modified: 2015-01-22

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

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Debian -> DPKG 

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