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openSUSE Security Update: cpio Released for Issue 2019:2596-1 Moderate

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Calendar Grey November 30, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
openSUSE has issued a patch for cpio to tackle a significant security flaw related to inadequate TAR validation.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for cpio fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2019-14866: Fixed an improper validation of the values written in

the header of a TAR file through the to_oct() function which could have

led to unexpected TAR generation (bsc#1155199).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate software update cpio openSUSE improper validation

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-2596=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (i586 x86_64):

cpio-2.12-lp151.3.3.1

cpio-debuginfo-2.12-lp151.3.3.1

cpio-debugsource-2.12-lp151.3.3.1

cpio-mt-2.12-lp151.3.3.1

cpio-mt-debuginfo-2.12-lp151.3.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (noarch):

cpio-lang-2.12-lp151.3.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14866.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1155199

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:2596-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate software update cpio openSUSE improper validation

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