USN-3310-1: lintian vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3310-1

6th June, 2017

lintian vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

• Ubuntu 17.04



• Ubuntu 16.10



• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary

lintian could be made to run programs if it processed a specially crafted
package.

Software description

• lintian
  - Debian package checker
  
  

Details

Jakub Wilk discovered that lintian incorrectly handled deserializing
certain YAML files. If a user or automated system were tricked into running
lintian on a specially crafted package, a remote attacker could possibly
use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:

Ubuntu 17.04:

Ubuntu 16.10:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

To update your system, please follow these instructions: