Bug#732006: uscan: broken handling of filenames with whitespace

Jakub Wilk jwilk at debian.org
Thu Dec 12 10:16:28 UTC 2013


Package: devscripts
Version: 2.13.5
Severity: grave
Tags: security
Justification: user security hole

If USCAN_EXCLUSION is enabled, uscan doesn't correctly handle filenames 
containing whitespace. This can be abused my malicious upstream to 
delete files of their choice. Proof of concept (that will cause attempt 
to delete /usr) is attached.

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Jakub Wilk
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