CVE-2005-4268 Information

Description

Buffer overflow in cpio 2.6-8.FC4 on 64-bit platforms when creating a cpio archive allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a file whose size is represented by more than 8 digits.

Reference

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:03.cpio.asc http://frontal1.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:237 http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-May/0004.html http://secunia.com/advisories/18251 http://secunia.com/advisories/18278 http://secunia.com/advisories/18280 http://secunia.com/advisories/18395 http://secunia.com/advisories/20117 http://secunia.com/advisories/25098 http://secunia.com/advisories/25161 http://www.osvdb.org/22194 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0245.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0145.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16057 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=172669 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23855 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1338 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10450 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A6860 https://usn.ubuntu.com/234-1/