CVE-2014-0471

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-04-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the unpacking functionality in dpkg before 1.15.9, 1.16.x before 1.16.13, and 1.17.x before 1.17.8 allows remote attackers to write arbitrary files via a crafted source package, related to "C-style filename quoting."

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 12.04, 12.10, 13.10, 14.04
Debian dpkg: through 1.15.8.8; 1.9.1, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 1.9.7, 1.9.8, 1.9.9 (+162)

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2915
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67106
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2183-1
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2915
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67106
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2183-1

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