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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2117-1 zsh -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

24 Feb 2020

Affected Packages:

zsh

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 951458.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-20044.

More information:

A privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in zsh, a shell with lots of features, whereby a user could regain a formerly elevated privelege level even when such an action should not be permitted.

For Debian 8 Jessie, this problem has been fixed in version 5.0.7-5+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your zsh packages.

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