Debian Security Advisory
DLA-31-1 reportbug -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 07 Aug 2014
- Affected Packages:
- reportbug
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-0479.
- More information:
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Fix CVE-2014-0479: Arbitrary code execution in compare_versions. A man-in-the-middle attacker could put shell metacharacters in the version number, causing execution of code of their choice.
For Debian 6
Squeeze
, these issues have been fixed in reportbug version 4.12.6+deb6u1