CVE-2015-0860

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-12-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Off-by-one error in the extracthalf function in dpkg-deb/extract.c in the dpkg-deb component in Debian dpkg 1.16.x before 1.16.17 and 1.17.x before 1.17.26 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the archive magic version number in an "old-style" Debian binary package, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.04, 15.10
Debian dpkg: 1.16.0, 1.16.0.1, 1.16.0.2, 1.16.0.3, 1.16.1, 1.16.1.1 (+42)

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3407
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2820-1
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/dpkg-deb/extract.c?id=e65aa3db04eb908c9507d5d356a95cedb890814d
https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/30-Stack-overflows-and-out-of-bounds-read-in-dpkg-Debian.html
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=798324
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-07
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3407
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2820-1
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/dpkg-deb/extract.c?id=e65aa3db04eb908c9507d5d356a95cedb890814d
https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/30-Stack-overflows-and-out-of-bounds-read-in-dpkg-Debian.html
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=798324
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-07

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