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Mageia 2019-0326: cpio security update

Date 14 Nov 2019

Category Mageia Linux Distribution - Security Advisories

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Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

in cpio 2.11, when using the --no-absolute-filenames option, allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an archive (CVE-2015-1197). Thomas Habets discovered that GNU cpio incorrectly handled certain

MGASA-2019-0326 - Updated cpio packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 14 Nov 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0326.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7
CVE: CVE-2015-1197,
     CVE-2019-14866

in cpio 2.11, when using the --no-absolute-filenames option, allows local
users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an
archive (CVE-2015-1197).

Thomas Habets discovered that GNU cpio incorrectly handled certain
inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to privilege escalation
(CVE-2019-14866).

cpio has been updated to 2.13 that fixes theese issues.

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25680
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4176-1/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1197
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-14866

SRPMS:
- 7/core/cpio-2.13-1.mga7