CVE-2004-1000: Debian Lintian

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

lintian 1.23 and earlier removes the working directory even if it was not created by lintian, which may allow local users to delete arbitrary files or directories via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Debian Lintian: version 1.2_0.17.1 only

Published 2004-01-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.