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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 RHSA-2022:0073-01 Moderate Cpio Update

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Calendar Grey January 11, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat has released a security patch for cpio in RHEL 8.2 EUS addressing input validation vulnerabilities related to tar header parameters.
An update for cpio is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support

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 unexpected 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update input validation cpio red hat enterprise tar header

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14866 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 8.2):
Source: cpio-2.12-8.el8_2.1.src.rpm
aarch64: cpio-2.12-8.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm cpio-debuginfo-2.12-8.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm cpio-debugsource-2.12-8.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: cpio-2.12-8.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm cpio-debuginfo-2.12-8.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm cpio-debugsource-2.12-8.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: cpio-2.12-8.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm cpio-debuginfo-2.12-8.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm cpio-debugsource-2.12-8.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: cpio-2.12-8.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm cpio-debuginfo-2.12-8.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm cpio-debugsource-2.12-8.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:0073-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0073
Issue date: 2022-01-11

Topic

An update for cpio is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2Extended Update Support.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 moderate update input validation cpio red hat enterprise tar header

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 8.2) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

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