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Debian: 2014-12-22 Critical: Cpio Out Of Bounds And Null Pointer Issues

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Calendar Grey December 23, 2014
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Urgent security patch implemented for Debian's cpio utility, tackling various vulnerabilities and associated risks.
Michal Zalewski discovered an out of bounds write issue in cpio, a tool for creating and extracting cpio archive files

Summary

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.11+dfsg-0.1+deb7u1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), this problem will be
fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.11+dfsg-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your cpio packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: cpio
CVE ID: CVE-2014-9112

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