GHSA-w56q-6jw5-h5xfHighCVSS 8.2

It was discovered that dpkg-deb does not properly sanitize directory permissions when extracting...

Published
July 1, 2025
Last Modified
July 8, 2026

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📋 Description

It was discovered that dpkg-deb does not properly sanitize directory permissions when extracting a control member into a temporary directory, which is documented as being a safe operation even on untrusted data. This may result in leaving temporary files behind on cleanup. Given automated and repeated execution of dpkg-deb commands on adversarial .deb packages or with well compressible files, placed inside a directory with permissions not allowing removal by a non-root user, this can end up in a DoS scenario due to causing disk quota exhaustion or disk full conditions.

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