RedHat: RHSA-2022-1991:01 Moderate: cpio security update
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: integer overflow in ds_fgetstr() in dstring.c can lead to an
out-of-bounds write via a crafted pattern file (CVE-2021-38185)
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 8.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Summary
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
References
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-38185 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.6_release_notes/
Package List
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source:
cpio-2.12-11.el8.src.rpm
aarch64:
cpio-2.12-11.el8.aarch64.rpm
cpio-debuginfo-2.12-11.el8.aarch64.rpm
cpio-debugsource-2.12-11.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le:
cpio-2.12-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm
cpio-debuginfo-2.12-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm
cpio-debugsource-2.12-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
cpio-2.12-11.el8.s390x.rpm
cpio-debuginfo-2.12-11.el8.s390x.rpm
cpio-debugsource-2.12-11.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
cpio-2.12-11.el8.x86_64.rpm
cpio-debuginfo-2.12-11.el8.x86_64.rpm
cpio-debugsource-2.12-11.el8.x86_64.rpm
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Topic
An update for cpio is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.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.
Topic
Relevant Releases Architectures
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
Bugs Fixed
1991731 - CVE-2021-38185 cpio: integer overflow in ds_fgetstr() in dstring.c can lead to an out-of-bounds write via a crafted pattern file