Lintian vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.
Lintian is made by Debian. We track 6 published vulnerabilities in it, across 166 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Lintian, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.
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None of Lintian's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.
Which Lintian flaws are most likely to be used?
Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.
- 5.8%CVE-2009-4013Critical
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in Lintian 1.23.x through 1.23.28, 1.24.x through 1.24.2.1, and 2.x before 2.3.2 allow remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files or obtain sensitive information via...
- 3.9%CVE-2009-4015High
Lintian 1.23.x through 1.23.28, 1.24.x through 1.24.2.1, and 2.x before 2.3.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in filename arguments.
- 3.1%CVE-2009-4014High
Multiple format string vulnerabilities in Lintian 1.23.x through 1.23.28, 1.24.x through 1.24.2.1, and 2.x before 2.3.2 allow remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via vectors involving (1) check scripts and...
- 1.5%CVE-2017-8829High
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.
- 1.3%CVE-2013-1429Medium
Lintian before 2.5.12 allows remote attackers to gather information about the "host" system using crafted symlinks.
- 0.4%
lintian 1.23 and earlier removes the working directory even if it was not created by lintian, which may allow local users to delete arbitrary files or directories via a symlink attack.
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Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in Lintian 1.23.x through 1.23.28, 1.24.x through 1.24.2.1, and 2.x before 2.3.2 allow remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files or obtain sensitive information via vectors involving (1) control field names, (2) control field values, and (3) control files of patch systems.
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We track 6 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Lintian, across 166 versions.
None of Lintian's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.
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