CVE-2010-4226 Information

Description

cpio as used in build 2007.05.10 2010.07.28 and possibly other versions allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink within an RPM package archive.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-03/msg00008.html http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4226.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665768