USN-891-1: lintian vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 9.10
• Ubuntu 9.04
• Ubuntu 8.10
• Ubuntu 8.04
• Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

• lintian -

Details

Raphael Geissert 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.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 9.10

• lintian - 2.2.17ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 9.04

• lintian - 2.2.5ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 8.10

• lintian - 1.24.3ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 8.04

• lintian - 1.23.46ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 6.06

• lintian - 1.23.16ubuntu2.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2009-4015
• CVE-2009-4013
• CVE-2009-4014