Ubuntu alert USN-3310-1 (lintian)

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Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@canonical.com> 
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[USN-3310-1] lintian vulnerability 
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Tue, 6 Jun 2017 11:53:04 -0400
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3310-1
June 06, 2017

lintian vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 17.04
- Ubuntu 16.10
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

lintian could be made to run programs if it processed a specially crafted
package.

Software Description:
- lintian: Debian package checker

Details:

Jakub Wilk discovered that lintian incorrectly handled deserializing
certain YAML files. If a user or automated system were tricked into running
lintian on a specially crafted package, a remote attacker could possibly
use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 17.04:
  lintian                         2.5.50.1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.10:
  lintian                         2.5.48ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  lintian                         2.5.43ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
  https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3310-1
  CVE-2017-8829

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lintian/2.5.50.1ubun...
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lintian/2.5.48ubuntu0.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lintian/2.5.43ubuntu0.1


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