CVE-1999-1572

Recently it was discovered that cpio created world-writeable files when used in -o/–create mode with giving an output file (with -O) This allowed any user to modify the created cpio archives Now cpio respects the current umask setting of the user ...

Synopsis cpio security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Low Topic An updated cpio package that fixes multiple issues is now availableThis update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red HatSecurity Response Team Description GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio ...

Synopsis cpio security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Low Topic An updated cpio package that fixes a umask bug is now available for Red HatEnterprise Linux 4This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red HatSecurity Response Team Description GNU cpio copies fi ...

Synopsis cpio security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Low Topic An updated cpio package that fixes a umask bug and supports large files(>2GB) is now availableThis update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red HatSecurity Response Team Description GNU cpio copie ...

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 242-39woody1 For the unstable distribution (sid) this ...