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CVE-2016-1253

Published: 5 December 2017

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.

From the Ubuntu Security Team

It was discovered that most is vulnerable to shell injection attack. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
most
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Ignored
(end of life)
bionic Not vulnerable
(5.0.0a-4)
cosmic Not vulnerable
(5.0.0a-4)
precise Ignored
(end of life)
trusty
Released (5.0.0a-2.3+deb8u1build0.14.04.1)
upstream
Released (5.0.0a-2.3+deb8u1build0.14.04.1, 5.0.0a-2.3+deb8u1build0.16.04.1, 5.0.0a-3)
xenial
Released (5.0.0a-2.3+deb8u1build0.16.04.1)
yakkety Ignored
(end of life)
zesty Ignored
(end of life)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H