CVE-2015-0860 Information

Description

Off-by-one error in the extracthalf function in dpkg-deb/extract.c in the dpkg-deb component in Debian dpkg 1.16.x before 1.16.17 and 1.17.x before 1.17.26 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the archive magic version number in an \old-style\ Debian binary package which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.

Reference

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3407 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2820-1 https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/dpkg-deb/extract.c?id=e65aa3db04eb908c9507d5d356a95cedb890814d https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/30-Stack-overflows-and-out-of-bounds-read-in-dpkg-Debian.html https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=798324 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-07