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CVE-2025-6297

Updated on 01 Jul 2025

Severity

8.2 High severity

Details

CVSS score
8.2
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
CWE ID
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

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.

Details

Affected product:
Alpine Linux 3.18 ELS , Debian 10 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS
Affected packages:
dpkg @ 1.19.0.5 (+3 more)
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.

Fixes