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CVE

CVE-2018-1000849

Alpine Linux version Versions prior to 2.6.10, 2.7.6, and 2.10.1 contains a Other/Unknown vulnerability in apk-tools (Alpine Linux' package manager) that can result in Remote Code Execution.
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CVE

CVE-2018-1000849

Alpine Linux version Versions prior to 2.6.10, 2.7.6, and 2.10.1 contains a Other/Unknown vulnerability in apk-tools (Alpine Linux' package manager) that can result in Remote Code Execution.

Alpine Linux version Versions prior to 2.6.10, 2.7.6, and 2.10.1 contains a Other/Unknown vulnerability in apk-tools (Alpine Linux' package manager) that can result in Remote Code Execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via A specially crafted APK-file can cause apk to write arbitrary data to an attacker-specified file, due to bugs in handling long link target name and the way a regular file is extracted.. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.6.10, 2.7.6, and 2.10.1.

Package Versions Affected

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CVSS Version

Severity
Base Score
CVSS Version
Score Vector
C
H
U
8.8
-
3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
C
H
U
8.8
-
3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
C
H
U
-

Related Resources

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References

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.8.1-released.html, https://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/apk-tools/commit/?id=6484ed9849f03971eb48ee1fdc21a2f128247eb1, https://justi.cz/security/2018/09/13/alpine-apk-rce.html, https://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/apk-tools/commit/?id=6484ed9849f03971eb48ee1fdc21a2f128247eb1, https://justi.cz/security/2018/09/13/alpine-apk-rce.html

Severity

8.8

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Ecosystem
Base CVSS
8.8
EPSS Probability
0.0133%
EPSS Percentile
0.797%
Introduced Version
39b0c8831248a12802840795b52484129a2147bf
Fix Available
7494f69c4a2b77d4a87333b3c7634007def2d3b2

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