CVE-2015-0840 (GCVE-0-2015-0840)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-04-13 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 04:26
VLAI
Summary
The dpkg-source command in Debian dpkg before 1.16.16 and 1.17.x before 1.17.25 allows remote attackers to bypass signature verification via a crafted Debian source control file (.dsc).
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2566-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-0… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3217 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Date Public
2015-04-09 00:00
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