CVE-2013-1429

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

Lintian before 2.5.12 allows remote attackers to gather information about the "host" system using crafted symlinks.

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2.5.10.5`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2.5.10.5`
debian	forky	fixed	`2.5.10.5`
debian	sid	fixed	`2.5.10.5`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2.5.10.5`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-1429

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

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