CVE-2014-8625

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-01-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-134

Description

Multiple format string vulnerabilities in the parse_error_msg function in parsehelp.c in dpkg before 1.17.22 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the (1) package or (2) architecture name.

Affected products

Debian dpkg: through 1.17.21

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157387.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/539
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/551
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/622
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768485
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/1389135
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98551
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157387.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/539
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/551
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/622
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768485

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