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GSD-2021-32556

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:23
Details
It was discovered that the get_modified_conffiles() function in backends/packaging-apt-dpkg.py allowed injecting modified package names in a manner that would confuse the dpkg(1) call.
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