Summary
The remote host is missing an update to dpkg
announced via advisory DSA 2011-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202011-1
Insight
William Grant discovered that the dpkg-source component of dpkg, the low-level infrastructure for handling the installation and removal of Debian software packages, is vulnerable to path traversal attacks.
A specially crafted Debian source package can lead to file modification outside of the destination directory when extracting the package content.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.14.29.
For the testing (squeeze) and unstable (sid) distribution this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your dpkg packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2010-0396 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
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