Scientific Linux SL3, SL4, SL5 Moderate: Cpio Buffer Overflow Advisory

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:21:08 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: cpio on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: cpio security update
Issue date:	2010-03-15
CVE Names:	CVE-2005-4268 CVE-2007-4476 CVE-2010-0624

CVE-2005-4268 cpio large filesize buffer overflow
CVE-2007-4476 tar/cpio stack crashing in safer_name_suffix
CVE-2010-0624 tar, cpio: Heap-based buffer overflow by expanding a
specially-crafted archive

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way cpio expanded
archive files. If a user were tricked into expanding a specially-crafted
archive, it could cause the cpio executable to crash or execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running cpio. (CVE-2010-0624)

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way cpio expanded
large archive files. If a user expanded a specially-crafted archive, it
could cause the cpio executable to crash. This issue only affected
64-bit platforms. (CVE-2005-4268) - SL3 Only

A denial of service flaw was found in the way cpio expanded archive
files. If a user expanded a specially-crafted archive, it could cause
the cpio executable to crash. (CVE-2007-4476) - SL5 Only

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
cpio-2.5-6.RHEL3.src.rpm
 i386:
cpio-2.5-6.RHEL3.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
cpio-2.5-6.RHEL3.x86_64.rpm

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
cpio-2.5-16.el4_8.1.src.rpm
 i386:
cpio-2.5-16.el4_8.1.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
cpio-2.5-16.el4_8.1.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
cpio-2.6-23.el5_4.1.src.rpm
 i386:
cpio-2.6-23.el5_4.1.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
cpio-2.6-23.el5_4.1.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson