CVE-2009-4015: Debian Lintian

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Lintian 1.23.x through 1.23.28, 1.24.x through 1.24.2.1, and 2.x before 2.3.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in filename arguments.

Affected products

• Debian Lintian: version 1.23.0 only; version 1.23.1 only; version 1.23.2 only; version 1.23.3 only; version 1.23.4 only; version 1.23.5 only; …

Published 2010-02-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.