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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2012-0815

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2012-0815

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/04/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/12/2013
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

The headerVerifyInfo function in lib/header.c in RPM before 4.9.1.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a negative value in a region offset of a package header, which is not properly handled in a numeric range comparison.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-popt
  • suse-upgrade-popt-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-popt-64bit
  • suse-upgrade-popt-devel
  • suse-upgrade-popt-devel-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-popt-devel-64bit
  • suse-upgrade-popt-x86
  • suse-upgrade-rpm
  • suse-upgrade-rpm-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-rpm-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-rpm-debuginfo-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-rpm-debuginfo-x86
  • suse-upgrade-rpm-debugsource
  • suse-upgrade-rpm-devel
  • suse-upgrade-rpm-devel-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-rpm-python
  • suse-upgrade-rpm-python-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-rpm-python-debugsource
  • suse-upgrade-rpm-x86
  • suse-upgrade-sle-sdk-release

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