USN-2901-1

It was discovered that xdelta3 incorrectly handled certain files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause xdelta3 to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / xdelta3

Package

Name: xdelta3
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/xdelta3@3.0.7-dfsg-2ubuntu0.2?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

3.0.7-dfsg-2ubuntu0.2

Affected versions

3.*

3.0.7-dfsg-2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "3.0.7-dfsg-2ubuntu0.2",
            "binary_name": "xdelta3"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2901-1.json"

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-9765",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
}