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Mageia: 2021-0423 Critical Vulnerability in Cpio Code Injection Risk

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Calendar Grey September 23, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
MGASA-2021-0423 addresses a vital security flaw in cpio, enabling potential code execution via specially crafted inputs.
GNU cpio through 2.13 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted pattern file, because of a dstring.c ds_fgetstr integer overflow that triggers an out-of-bounds heap ...

Summary

GNU cpio through 2.13 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted pattern file, because of a dstring.c ds_fgetstr integer overflow that triggers an out-of-bounds heap write. (CVE-2021-38185).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29366

- https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2021-August/009282.html

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- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5064-1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-38185

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update code execution heap overflow cpio Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/cpio-2.13-5.1.mga8

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Publication date: 23 Sep 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0423.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-38185

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update code execution heap overflow cpio Mageia

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