CVE-2015-0860
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-0860
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2015-0860.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2015-0860
- Downstream
- Related
- Withdrawn
- 2026-01-27T04:13:45.010550Z
- Published
- 2015-12-03T20:59:01Z
- Modified
- 2026-01-27T04:13:45.010550Z
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
- References
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- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3407
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2820-1
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-07
- https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/30-Stack-overflows-and-out-of-bounds-read-in-dpkg-Debian.html
- https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/dpkg-deb/extract.c?id=e65aa3db04eb908c9507d5d356a95cedb890814d
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=798324