CVE-2009-2946

Summary

CVECVE-2009-2946
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-09-04 20:30:00 UTC
Updated2009-09-08 04:00:00 UTC
DescriptionEval injection vulnerability in scripts/uscan.pl before Rev 1984 in devscripts allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Perl code via crafted pathnames on distribution servers for upstream source code used in Debian GNU/Linux packages.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Linux All All All All
Operating System Debian Linux All All All All
Application Devscripts Devel Team Devscripts All All All All
Application Devscripts Devel Team Devscripts All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
svn.debian.org/wsvn/devscripts/trunk/scripts/uscan.pl CONFIRM svn.debian.org
#515209 - [uscan] Does not indicate that a mangling regex is invalid - Debian Bug report logs CONFIRM bugs.debian.org
svn.debian.org/wsvn/devscripts/trunk/scripts/uscan.pl CONFIRM svn.debian.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1878-1 devscripts DEBIAN www.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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