Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.58238
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2007:0245
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2007:0245. GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive. A buffer overflow was found in cpio on 64-bit platforms. By tricking a user into adding a specially crafted large file to a cpio archive, a local attacker may be able to exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the target user's privileges. (CVE-2005-4268) This erratum also addresses the following bugs: * cpio did not set exit codes appropriately. * cpio did not create a ram disk properly. All users of cpio are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains backported fixes to correct these issues. Solution: Please note that this update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0245.html http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low Risk factor : Medium CVSS Score: 3.7
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-4268 16057 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16057 18251 http://secunia.com/advisories/18251 18278 http://secunia.com/advisories/18278 18280 http://secunia.com/advisories/18280 18395 http://secunia.com/advisories/18395 20117 http://secunia.com/advisories/20117 22194 http://www.osvdb.org/22194 25098 http://secunia.com/advisories/25098 25161 http://secunia.com/advisories/25161 FreeBSD-SA-06:03 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:03.cpio.asc MDKSA-2005:237 http://frontal1.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:237 RHSA-2007:0245 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0245.html RHSA-2010:0145 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0145.html SUSE-SR:2006:010 http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-May/0004.html USN-234-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/234-1/ cpio-file-size-bo(23855) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23855 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=172669 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1338 oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10450 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10450 oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6860 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6860
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