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S-119: apt-listchanges Vulnerability

It was discovered that apt-listchanges, a package change history notification tool, used unsafe paths when importing its python libraries. The risk is MEDIUM. This could alllow the execution of arbitrary shell commands if the root user executed the command in a directory which other local users may write to.


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