CESA-2005:073: cpio security update
Description
An updated cpio package that fixes a umask bug is now available for CentOS Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having low security impact by the CentOS Security Response Team
GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive. It was discovered that cpio uses a 0 umask when creating files using the -O (archive) option. This creates output files with mode 0666 (all can read and write) regardless of the user's umask setting. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-1999-1572 to this issue. Users of cpio should upgrade to this updated package, which resolves this issue. CentOS would like to thank Mike O'Connor for bringing this issue to our attention.
Solution(s)
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