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CVE-2015-0840

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-04-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

The dpkg-source command in Debian dpkg before 1.16.16 and 1.17.x before 1.17.25 allows remote attackers to bypass signature verification via a crafted Debian source control file (.dsc).

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
• Debian dpkg: through 1.16.15; 1.17.0, 1.17.1, 1.17.2, 1.17.3, 1.17.4, 1.17.5 (+19)

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157387.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00029.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3217
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2566-1
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157387.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00029.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3217
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2566-1

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