CVE-2015-0860: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Off-by-one error in the extracthalf function in dpkg-deb/extract.c in the dpkg-deb component in Debian dpkg 1.16.x before 1.16.17 and 1.17.x before 1.17.26 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the archive magic version number in an "old-style" Debian binary package, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 15.04 only; version 15.10 only
• Debian Dpkg: version 1.16.0 only; version 1.16.0.1 only; version 1.16.0.2 only; version 1.16.0.3 only; version 1.16.1 only; version 1.16.1.1 only; …

Published 2015-12-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.