File _patchinfo of Package patchinfo.4525
<patchinfo incident="4525">
<issue id="957160" tracker="bnc">VUL-1: CVE-2015-0860: dpkg: stack overflows and out of bounds read</issue>
<issue id="2015-0860" tracker="cve" />
<category>security</category>
<rating>moderate</rating>
<packager>pgajdos</packager>
<description>
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).
</description>
<summary>Security update for dpkg</summary>
</patchinfo>