VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-0211

critical
Published 2012-06-16 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.3

Description

debdiff.pl in devscripts 2.10.x before 2.10.69 and 2.11.x before 2.11.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted tarball file name in the top-level directory of an original (.orig) source tarball of a source package.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.11.4
debian debianbullseyefixed2.11.4
debian debianforkyfixed2.11.4
debian debiansidfixed2.11.4
debian debiantrixiefixed2.11.4

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.0
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.1
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.3
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.6
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.7
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.8
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.9
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.10
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.11
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.12
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.13
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.14
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.15
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.16
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.17
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.18
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.18.1
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.19
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.20
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.21
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.22
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.23
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.24
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.25
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.26
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.27
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.28
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.29
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.30
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.31
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.32
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.33
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.34
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.35
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.36
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.38
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.39
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.40
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.41
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.42
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.43
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.44
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.45
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.46
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.47
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.48
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.49
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.50
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.51
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.52
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.53
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.54
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.55
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.56
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.57
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.58
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.59
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.60
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.61
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.62
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.63
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.64
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.65.1
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.66
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.67
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.10.68
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.11.0
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.11.1
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.11.2
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.11.3

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.