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Library libdpkg has vulnerability CVE-2025-6297 #8765

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https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6297

It was discovered that dpkg-deb does not properly sanitize directory permissions when extracting a control member into a temporary directory, which is
documented as being a safe operation even on untrusted data. This may result in leaving temporary files behind on cleanup. Given automated and repeated execution of dpkg-deb commands on
adversarial .deb packages or with well compressible files, placed
inside a directory with permissions not allowing removal by a non-root
user, this can end up in a DoS scenario due to causing disk quota
exhaustion or disk full conditions.

NOTE: This is an automated issue created based on the library metadata. Osquery may or may not be affected.

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