PT-2012-3900 · Debian · Devscripts

Raphael Geissert · Published 2012-10-01 · Updated 2017-08-29 · CVE-2012-2241

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions devscripts versions prior to 2.12.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via a crafted .dsc or .changes file, probably related to a NULL byte in a filename.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.12.3, update to version 2.12.3 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the scripts/dget.pl script until the update is applied.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-2241

DSA-2549-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10372-1

Affected Products

Devscripts

References · 10

• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1593-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2549 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-2241 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-2241 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2241 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2241 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50600 · Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78977 · Note
• http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=devscripts/devscripts.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=0fd15bdec07b085f9ef438dacd18e159ac60b810 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/55564 · Note