File _patchinfo of Package patchinfo.6694

<patchinfo incident="6694">
  <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).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP1:Update update project.</description>
  <summary>Security update for dpkg</summary>
</patchinfo>
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