USN-650-1: cpio vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 7.10
• Ubuntu 7.04
• Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

• cpio -

Details

A buffer overflow was discovered in cpio. If a user were tricked into
opening a crafted cpio archive, an attacker could cause a denial of
service via application crash, or possibly execute code with the
privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2007-4476)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 7.10

• cpio - 2.8-1ubuntu2.2

Ubuntu 7.04

• cpio - 2.6-17ubuntu0.7.04.1

Ubuntu 6.06

• cpio - 2.6-10ubuntu0.3

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2007-4476

Related notices

• USN-709-1: tar