CVE-2015-0857 Command injection in n/a

What is CVE-2015-0857?

CVE-2015-0857 is a critical command injection vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 6 May 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Cool Projects TarDiff allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the name of a (1) tar file or (2) file within a tar file.

Weakness: CWE-77

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-0857?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Tardiff Project Tardiff.

How do I fix CVE-2015-0857?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2015-0857 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-0857 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-0857, GHSA-m6cq-f7jw-66mh, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-0857.