CVE-2010-1679

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-01-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in dpkg-source in dpkg before 1.14.31 and 1.15.x allows user-assisted remote attackers to modify arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in a patch for a source-format 3.0 package.

Affected products

Debian dpkg: through 1.14.30; 1.9.19, 1.9.20, 1.9.21, 1.10, 1.10.1, 1.10.2 (+118)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053306.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053311.html
http://osvdb.org/70368
http://secunia.com/advisories/42826
http://secunia.com/advisories/42831
http://secunia.com/advisories/43054
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2142
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45703
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1038-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0040
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0044
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0196

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