{"id":"USN-3310-1","summary":"lintian vulnerability","details":"Jakub Wilk discovered that lintian incorrectly handled deserializing\ncertain YAML files. If a user or automated system were tricked into running\nlintian on a specially crafted package, a remote attacker could possibly\nuse this issue to execute arbitrary code.\n","modified":"2026-02-10T04:41:08Z","published":"2017-06-06T15:22:20Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8829"],"upstream":["CVE-2017-8829","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8829"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3310-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8829"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"lintian","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/lintian@2.5.43ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.5.43ubuntu0.1"}]}],"versions":["2.5.36.1ubuntu2","2.5.38.1ubuntu1","2.5.43~ubuntu1","2.5.43"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"lintian","binary_version":"2.5.43ubuntu0.1"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"cves":[{"id":"CVE-2017-8829","severity":[{"score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","type":"CVSS_V3"},{"score":"medium","type":"Ubuntu"}]}],"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS"},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-3310-1.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}