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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2005-4268

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2005-4268

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/15/2005
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2015
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Buffer overflow in cpio 2.6-8.FC4 on 64-bit platforms, when creating a cpio archive, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a file whose size is represented by more than 8 digits.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-cpio

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