CVE-2012-0815 Information

Description

The headerVerifyInfo function in lib/header.c in RPM before 4.9.1.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a negative value in a region offset of a package header which is not properly handled in a numeric range comparison.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/077960.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078819.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078907.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0451.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.html http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git;a=commitdiff;h=472e569562d4c90d7a298080e0052856aa7fa86b http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git;a=commitdiff;h=858a328cd0f7d4bcd8500c78faaf00e4f8033df6 http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.9.1.3 http://secunia.com/advisories/48651 http://secunia.com/advisories/48716 http://secunia.com/advisories/49110 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:056 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html http://www.osvdb.org/81009 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52865 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026882 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1695-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744104 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74581 https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14440932 https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14441362