9.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2011-3378

Published: 24/12/2011 Updated: 13/02/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.3 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 828
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

RPM 4.4.x up to and including 4.9.x, probably prior to 4.9.1.2, allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an rpm package with crafted headers and offsets that are not properly handled when a package is queried or installed, related to (1) the regionSwab function, (2) the headerLoad function, and (3) multiple functions in rpmio/rpmpgp.c.

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Debian Bug report logs - #645325 CVE-2011-3378: Malformed Header parsing Package: rpm; Maintainer for rpm is RPM packaging team <team+pkg-rpm@trackerdebianorg>; Source for rpm is src:rpm (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <muehlenhoff@univentionde> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:57:01 UTC Severity: ...
RPM could be made to crash or run programs if it opened a specially crafted package file ...
Multiple flaws were found in the way the RPM library parsed package headers An attacker could create a specially-crafted RPM package that, when queried or installed, would cause rpm to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code (CVE-2011-3378) ...