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rPath update for cpio and tar
Secunia Advisory: SA27331
Release Date: 2007-10-24
Popularity: 3,665 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:rPath Linux 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-4476


Description:
rPath has issued an update for cpio and tar. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing specially crafted tar archives and can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow and crash the vulnerable application.

Solution:
Update to:
cpio=conary.rpath.com@rpl:1/2.6-14.1-1
tar=conary.rpath.com@rpl:1/1.15.1-7.3-1

Original Advisory:
http://lists.rpath.com/pipermail/security-announce/2007-October/000268.html


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