Debian Security Advisory
DLA-597-1 libupnp -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 18 Aug 2016
- Affected Packages:
- libupnp
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 831857.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-6255. - More information:
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It has been discovered that libupnp's default behaviour allows anyone to write to the filesystem of the system running a libupnp-based server application.
For Debian 7
Wheezy
, these problems have been fixed in version 1.6.17-1.2+deb7u1.We recommend that you upgrade your libupnp packages.
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