Summary
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in uscan, a tool to scan upstream sites for new releases of packages, which is part of the devscripts package. An attacker controlling a website from which uscan would attempt to download a source tarball could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running uscan.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project id CVE-2013-6888 has
been assigned to identify them.
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 2.12.6+deb7u2.
For the testing distribution (jessie) and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.13.9.
We recommend that you upgrade your devscripts packages.
Insight
Contains the following scripts, dependencies/recommendations shown in brackets afterwards:
Affected
devscripts on Debian Linux
Detection
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2013-6888, CVE-2013-7325 -
CVSS Base Score: 10.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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