Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-891-1
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
It was discovered that lintian did not correctly validate certain filenames when processing input. If a user or an automated system were tricked into running lintian on a specially crafted set of files, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges.
Affected
lintian vulnerabilities on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ,
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ,
Ubuntu 8.10 ,
Ubuntu 9.04 ,
Ubuntu 9.10
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-4013, CVE-2009-4014, CVE-2009-4015 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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