CVE-2025-6297

dpkg-deb: Fix cleanup for control member with restricted directories

State
Published
Severity
8.2 High
Published
Jul 1, 2025
Updated
Jul 8, 2026
Reserved
Jun 19, 2025

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.2 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:NCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

ProductVersions
dpkgDebian
  • before ed6bbd445dd8800308c67236ba35d08004c98e82Affected

References

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