DSA-664-1 cpio -- broken file permissions

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-664-1 cpio -- broken file permissions

Date Reported:

02 Feb 2005

Affected Packages:

cpio

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-1999-1572.

More information:

It has been discovered, that cpio, a program to manage archives of files, creates output files with -O and -F with broken permissions due to a reset zero umask which allows local users to read or overwrite those files.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.2-39woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your cpio package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.