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CVE-2025-6297

dpkg-deb: Fix cleanup for control member with restricted directories

Published: 7/1/2025 Last updated: 7/1/2025 Reserved: 6/19/2025

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.

CNA assigner: debian (79363d38-fa19-49d1-9214-5f28da3f3ac5) Requested by: n/a

Metrics

Version Score Severity Vector String
3.1 8.2 High CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Opam packages affected (1)

conf-dpkg

Products affected (1)

Product Vendor Version
dpkg Debian 15.5(1)SY3

References (1)