CVE-2017-8283: Debian Dpkg

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

dpkg-source in dpkg 1.3.0 through 1.18.23 is able to use a non-GNU patch program and does not offer a protection mechanism for blank-indented diff hunks, which allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks via a crafted Debian source package, as demonstrated by use of dpkg-source on NetBSD.

Affected products

• Debian Dpkg: version 1.3.0 only; version 1.3.1 only; version 1.3.2 only; version 1.3.3 only; version 1.3.4 only; version 1.3.5 only; …

Published 2017-04-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.