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CVE-2025-6297

dpkg-deb: Fix cleanup for control member with restricted directories

CVSS 8.2 HIGHEPSS 0.3%CWE-400CWE-732
Vexday Risk Score
21Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 8.2EPSS 0.3%KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch
Lifecycle
01 Jul 2025Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
It was discovered that dpkg-deb does not properly sanitize directory permissions when extracting a control member into a temporary directory, which is 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 adversarial .deb packages or with well compressible files, placed inside a directory with permissions not allowing removal by a non-root user, this can end up in a DoS scenario due to causing disk quota exhaustion or disk full conditions.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
Affected products
Debian · dpkg

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