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devscripts: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):devscripts CVE #(s):CVE-2012-0210 CVE-2012-0211 CVE-2012-0212
Created:February 15, 2012 Updated:February 15, 2012
Description: From the Debian advisory:

CVE-2012-0210: Paul Wise discovered that due to insufficient input sanitising when processing .dsc and .changes files, it is possible to execute arbitrary code and disclose system information.

CVE-2012-0211: Raphael Geissert discovered that it is possible to inject or modify arguments of external commands when processing source packages with specially-named tarballs in the top-level directory of the .orig tarball, allowing arbitrary code execution.

CVE-2012-0212: Raphael Geissert discovered that it is possible to inject or modify arguments of external commands when passing as argument to debdiff a specially-named file, allowing arbitrary code execution.

Alerts:
Debian DSA-2409-1 2012-02-15
Ubuntu USN-1366-1 2012-02-15
Ubuntu USN-1593-1 2012-10-02

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