Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1566-1 cpio -- programming error
- Date Reported:
- 02 May 2008
- Affected Packages:
- cpio
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-4476.
- More information:
-
Dmitry Levin discovered a vulnerability in path handling code used by the cpio archive utility. The weakness could enable a denial of service (crash) or potentially the execution of arbitrary code if a vulnerable version of cpio is used to extract or to list the contents of a maliciously crafted archive.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.6-18.1+etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.9-5.
We recommend that you upgrade your cpio packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch1.dsc
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch1_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.