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>> Mandriva Security Update Fixes Cpio Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Title : Mandriva Security Update Fixes Cpio Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-3079
CVE ID : CVE-2005-4268
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-12-24


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Mandriva has released updated packages to address a vulnerability identified in Cpio. This flaw is due to a buffer overflow error when creating a cpio archive, which could allow local attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a file whose size is represented by more than 8 digits.

Affected Products

Mandriva Linux 10.2
Mandriva Linux 2006.0

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

Mandriva Linux 10.2:
b0400cb8878a93cc4e4d4326a0a46641 10.2/RPMS/cpio-2.6-3.3.102mdk.i586.rpm
ad70b46181e5a9ae2ca7ed97bb2c3853 10.2/SRPMS/cpio-2.6-3.3.102mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 10.2/X86_64:
0a7ca9d0d1de932219a76dcee4195ff8 x86_64/10.2/RPMS/cpio-2.6-3.3.102mdk.x86_64.rpm
ad70b46181e5a9ae2ca7ed97bb2c3853 x86_64/10.2/SRPMS/cpio-2.6-3.3.102mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2006.0:
571d79d56efac2687713e63180f10049 2006.0/RPMS/cpio-2.6-5.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm
998e92b468e495d779efd10daacae3ad 2006.0/SRPMS/cpio-2.6-5.1.20060mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2006.0/X86_64:
0bd4e5c9d85826c706232e21d3393317 x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/cpio-2.6-5.1.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
998e92b468e495d779efd10daacae3ad x86_64/2006.0/SRPMS/cpio-2.6-5.1.20060mdk.src.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/3079
http://www.frsirt.com/english/reference/3325

ChangeLog

2005-12-24 : Initial release

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