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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2020-3908-01 Moderate: Cpio Security Issue

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Calendar Grey September 29, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Patch release for cpio on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 categorized as moderate; addresses vulnerabilities related to input validation which may impact system security.
An update for cpio is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The cpio packages provide the GNU cpio utility for creating and extracting archives, or copying files from one place to another.
Security Fix(es):
* cpio: improper input validation when writing tar header fields leads to unexpect tar generation (CVE-2019-14866)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat moderate severity input validation cpio

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14866 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.9_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: cpio-2.11-28.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: cpio-2.11-28.el7.x86_64.rpm cpio-debuginfo-2.11-28.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: cpio-2.11-28.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: cpio-2.11-28.el7.x86_64.rpm cpio-debuginfo-2.11-28.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: cpio-2.11-28.el7.src.rpm
ppc64: cpio-2.11-28.el7.ppc64.rpm cpio-debuginfo-2.11-28.el7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: cpio-2.11-28.el7.ppc64le.rpm cpio-debuginfo-2.11-28.el7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: cpio-2.11-28.el7.s390x.rpm cpio-debuginfo-2.11-28.el7.s390x.rpm
x86_64: cpio-2.11-28.el7.x86_64.rpm cpio-debuginfo-2.11-28.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):
Source: cpio-2.11-28.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: cpio-2.11-28.el7.x86_64.rpm cpio-debuginfo-2.11-28.el7.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:3908-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3908
Issue date: 2020-09-29

Topic

An update for cpio is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat moderate severity input validation cpio

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1765511 - CVE-2019-14866 cpio: improper input validation when writing tar header fields leads to unexpect tar generation

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