CVE-2025-6297
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-400
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')
Publication date:
01/07/2025
Last modified:
03/07/2025
Description
It was discovered that dpkg-deb does not properly sanitize directory permissions when extracting a control member into a temporary directory, which is<br />
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<br />
adversarial .deb packages or with well compressible files, placed<br />
inside a directory with permissions not allowing removal by a non-root<br />
user, this can end up in a DoS scenario due to causing disk quota<br />
exhaustion or disk full conditions.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
8.20
Severity 3.x
HIGH