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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-2007-3760
CVE ID : CVE-2007-4476
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-11-07


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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 8

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

5a03fa8c30afdb5afbb89527f2763e256cd78681 cpio-2.9-5.fc8.ppc64.rpm
13ffbbf85b37b1a2173cc4b2d71e9553dfb38fa0 cpio-debuginfo-2.9-5.fc8.ppc64.rpm
4b8b964ba6fbec04c4472a702c7fbe863c53d092 cpio-debuginfo-2.9-5.fc8.i386.rpm
c7b5210fcec13ed27360651b3583d72a98d61896 cpio-2.9-5.fc8.i386.rpm
d34aeb9ce19da6881ccd8a27e17039ae3424ad30 cpio-debuginfo-2.9-5.fc8.x86_64.rpm
bf17483fa3f658e3cb6c0108017847b24ac0c491 cpio-2.9-5.fc8.x86_64.rpm
2559b264f62acbd5c3343eddbe5e95b96cb3ba1b cpio-debuginfo-2.9-5.fc8.ppc.rpm
bd8327a28fbe7509606ad21b9f7346e7c8e006b2 cpio-2.9-5.fc8.ppc.rpm
38bb73880286d31572b35a979f801aeb3171f83a cpio-2.9-5.fc8.src.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3760
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00118.html

ChangeLog

2007-11-07 : Initial release

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