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>> Fedora Security Update Fixes cpio "safer_name_suffix()" Buffer Overflow

Title : Fedora Security Update Fixes cpio "safer_name_suffix()" Buffer Overflow
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3733
CVE ID : CVE-2007-4476
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-11-06


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A vulnerability has been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused by an error in cpio. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3511

Affected Products

Fedora Core 6
Fedora 7

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

911f30a11bdf2238f1a50b91f83d7d21d9455978 cpio-2.6-28.fc7.ppc64.rpm
2383a135ea76390668742d1bb2a9aa6c70ecb544 cpio-debuginfo-2.6-28.fc7.ppc64.rpm
381a54fed92cf24e362591c12d7162bc96d71817 cpio-2.6-28.fc7.i386.rpm
13c531c898880bc6e3819485551320f85fd8c766 cpio-debuginfo-2.6-28.fc7.i386.rpm
c83be5c1d1f000d648cf869eba2c15c521461305 cpio-debuginfo-2.6-28.fc7.x86_64.rpm
893d61604221551311f239895200d7c41cd5e104 cpio-2.6-28.fc7.x86_64.rpm
e6bb3ed461f30731455796b159fb7b694eff4c29 cpio-debuginfo-2.6-28.fc7.ppc.rpm
74d248d2291c172085b1917e88b685f6d7dcfe09 cpio-2.6-28.fc7.ppc.rpm
96e481bdd62838bfcb95376d1c0d1333a4b8cd96 cpio-2.6-28.fc7.src.rpm

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/

1971c968ff5f31b382ff20245644a190c801b7ee SRPMS/cpio-2.6-22.fc6.src.rpm
1971c968ff5f31b382ff20245644a190c801b7ee noarch/cpio-2.6-22.fc6.src.rpm
2fb6803b35ad1ff3aa06b915e92fd68e879b270a ppc/debug/cpio-debuginfo-2.6-22.fc6.ppc.rpm
52ba8e08409a8a9f070318dece3e24dc4fc4ec4d ppc/cpio-2.6-22.fc6.ppc.rpm
91ab0b03380985d92eb239141e9a671f438003b2 x86_64/cpio-2.6-22.fc6.x86_64.rpm
b0c12ed13635d3b5351ee79df0bc902efff04cd7 x86_64/debug/cpio-debuginfo-2.6-22.fc6.x86_64.rpm
895d04b9436af530af61a8cc6f406973b161b6fc i386/debug/cpio-debuginfo-2.6-22.fc6.i386.rpm
8141c933272979cf16650f484c583958436a491b i386/cpio-2.6-22.fc6.i386.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3733
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00053.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00078.html

ChangeLog

2007-11-06 : Initial release

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