CVE-2005-4268 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-4268
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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/23855 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-234-1 SUSE http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-May/0004.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA18251 Secunia Advisory: SA18278 Secunia Advisory: SA18280 Secunia Advisory: SA18395 Secunia Advisory: SA20117 Secunia Advisory: SA25098 Secunia Advisory: SA25161 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0245.html OSVDB 22194 MANDRIVA http://frontal1.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:237 FREEBSD CONFIRM BID 16057

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