Ubuntu Security Notice 1593-1 - Raphael Geissert discovered that the debdiff.pl tool incorrectly handled shell metacharacters. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted filename, a remote attacher could possibly execute arbitrary code. Raphael Geissert discovered that the dscverify tool incorrectly escaped arguments to external commands. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing specially crafted files, a remote attacher could possibly execute arbitrary code. Various other issues were also addressed.
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Ubuntu Security Notice 1366-1 - Paul Wise discovered that debdiff did not properly sanitize its input when processing .dsc and .changes files. If debdiff processed a crafted file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. Raphael Geissert discovered that debdiff did not properly sanitize its input when processing source packages. If debdiff processed an original source tarball, with crafted filenames in the top-level directory, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. Various other issues were also addressed.
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Debian Linux Security Advisory 2409-1 - Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in debdiff, a script used to compare two Debian packages, which is part of the devscripts package.
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