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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM: USN-5064-2 High Severity: GNU Cpio Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey January 27, 2022
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The GNU cpio tool is susceptible to potential denial of service attacks or unauthorized code execution when handling specially crafted files, particularly in the context of Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.
GNU cpio could be made to crash or run programs if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

GNU cpio could be made to crash or run programs if it opened a specially

crafted file.

Software Description:

- cpio: a tool to manage archives of files

Details:

USN-5064-1 fixed vulnerabilities in GNU cpio. This update provides

the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

Maverick Chung and Qiaoyi Fang discovered that cpio incorrectly handled

certain pattern files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause cpio

to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary

code.

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution DoS Ubuntu cpio

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM:
cpio 2.11+dfsg-5ubuntu1.1+esm1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5064-2

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5064-1

CVE-2021-38185

January 27, 2022

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution DoS Ubuntu cpio

Package Information

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