DSA-1566-1 cpio -- programming error

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1566-1 cpio -- programming error

Date Reported:

02 May 2008

Affected Packages:

cpio

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-4476.

More information:

Dmitry Levin discovered a vulnerability in path handling code used by the cpio archive utility. The weakness could enable a denial of service (crash) or potentially the execution of arbitrary code if a vulnerable version of cpio is used to extract or to list the contents of a maliciously crafted archive.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.6-18.1+etch4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.9-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your cpio packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6.orig.tar.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch4.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch4.diff.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch4_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch4_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch4_arm.deb

HP Precision:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch4_hppa.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch4_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch4_ia64.deb

Big-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch4_mips.deb

Little-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch4_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch4_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch4_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.6-18.1+etch4_sparc.deb

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