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DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3421

A flaw was found in the RPM package in the read functionality. This flaw allows an attacker who can convince a victim to install a seemingly verifiabl...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

A flaw was found in the RPM package in the read functionality. This flaw allows an attacker who can convince a victim to install a seemingly verifiable package or compromise an RPM repository, to cause RPM database corruption. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity. This flaw affects RPM versions before 4.17.0-alpha.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 rpm

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.16.1.2+dfsg1-1"}]}]

Debian:13 rpm

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.16.1.2+dfsg1-1"}]}]

Debian:14 rpm

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.16.1.2+dfsg1-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org