The GNU cpio program could be made to crash or run programs if it opened a specially crafted file or received specially crafted input.
Michal Zalewski discovered an out of bounds write issue in the process_copy_in function of GNU cpio. An attacker could specially craft a cpio archive that could create a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-9112)
8 January 2015
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
The GNU cpio program could be made to crash or run programs if it opened a specially crafted file or received specially crafted input.
Michal Zalewski discovered an out of bounds write issue in the process_copy_in function of GNU cpio. An attacker could specially craft a cpio archive that could create a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-9112)
Jakob Lell discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the rmt_read__ function of GNU cpio’s rmt client functionality. An attacker controlling a remote rmt server could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. (CVE-2010-0624)
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
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