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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201612-07">
+ <title>dpkg: Arbitrary code execution</title>
+ <synopsis>A vulnerability was discovered in dpkg which could potentially lead
+ to arbitrary code execution.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">dpkg</product>
+ <announced>2016-12-04</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2016-12-04</revised>
+ <bug>567258</bug>
+ <access>local, remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="app-arch/dpkg" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">1.17.26</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">1.17.26</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>Debian package management system.</p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>Gentoo Linux developer, Hanno Böck, discovered an off-by-one error in
+ the dpkg-deb component of dpkg, the Debian package management system,
+ which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>An attacker could potentially execute arbitrary code if an user or an
+ automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted Debian
+ binary package (.deb).
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All dpkg users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-arch/dpkg-1.17.26"
+ </code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-0860">CVE-2015-0860</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-02-25T07:05:41Z">
+ BlueKnight
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-12-04T11:01:29Z">whissi</metadata>
+</glsa>