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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4052-1 bzr -- security update

Date Reported:

29 Nov 2017

Affected Packages:

bzr

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 874429.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-14176.

More information:

Adam Collard discovered that Bazaar, an easy to use distributed version control system, did not correctly handle maliciously constructed bzr+ssh URLs, allowing a remote attacker to run an arbitrary shell command.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.0+bzr6595-6+deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.7.0+bzr6619-7+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your bzr packages.

For the detailed security status of bzr please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/bzr