CVE-2017-8829

Publication date 8 May 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Deserialization vulnerability in lintian through 2.5.50.3 allows attackers to trigger code execution by requesting a review of a source package with a crafted YAML file.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
lintian	17.04 zesty	Fixed 2.5.50.1ubuntu0.1
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 2.5.48ubuntu0.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.5.43ubuntu0.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
lintian	Upstream: ?id=0a2

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3310-1
lintian vulnerability
6 June 2017

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8829