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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3483-1 cpio -- security update

Date Reported:

19 Feb 2016

Affected Packages:

cpio

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 812401.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-2037.

More information:

Gustavo Grieco discovered an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in cpio, a tool for creating and extracting cpio archive files, leading to a denial of service (application crash).

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.11+dfsg-0.1+deb7u2.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.11+dfsg-4.1+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.11+dfsg-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your cpio packages.