This update for dpkg fixes the following issues:

This security issue was fixed:

- CVE-2015-0860: Off-by-one error in the extracthalf function in dpkg-deb/extract.c in the dpkg-deb component in dpkg allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the archive magic version number in an "old-style" Debian binary package, which triggered a stack-based buffer overflow (bsc#957160).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP1:Update update project.