USN-4500-1

It was discovered that bsdiff mishandled certain input. If a user were tricked into opening a malicious file, an attacker could cause bsdiff to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / bsdiff

Package

Name: bsdiff
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/bsdiff@4.3-15+deb8u1build0.16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

4.3-15+deb8u1build0.16.04.1

Affected versions

4.*

4.3-15

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "bsdiff",
            "binary_version": "4.3-15+deb8u1build0.16.04.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-9862",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS"
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-4500-1.json"