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RPM Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA22740
Release Date: 2006-11-06
Popularity: 8,592 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Workaround

Software:RPM Package Manager 4.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in RPM, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when processing certain RPM packages. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow by e.g. tricking a user into querying a specially crafted RPM package.

Successful exploitation may allow the execution of arbitrary code, but requires that certain locales are set (e.g. ru_RU.UTF-8).

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