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FKIE_CVE-2016-1253

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-12-05 16:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:41
Severity
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
The most package in Debian wheezy before 5.0.0a-2.2, in Debian jessie before 5.0.0a-2.3+deb8u1, and in Debian unstable before 5.0.0a-3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the name of an LZMA-compressed file.
References
security@debian.orghttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/666Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@debian.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94931Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
security@debian.orghttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=848132Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
security@debian.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/12/msg00020.htmlIssue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/666Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94931Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=848132Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/12/msg00020.htmlIssue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
debian most *
debian debian_linux 7.0
debian most *
debian debian_linux 8.0
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