CVE-2005-1229

Summary

CVECVE-2005-1229
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-05-02 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2017-07-11 01:32:00 UTC
DescriptionDirectory traversal vulnerability in cpio 2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary directories via a .. (dot dot) in a cpio file.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Cpio All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Secunia - Advisories - Debian update for cpio SECUNIA secunia.com
SCOSA-2006.2 SCO ftp.sco.com
usn/usn-189-1 - Ubuntu Linux UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDKSA-2007:233 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-846-1 cpio DEBIAN www.debian.org
Secunia - Advisories - FreeBSD update for cpio SECUNIA secunia.com
Mandriva update for cpio - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
SuSE Security announcements: [suse-security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report SUSE-SR:2006:010 SUSE lists.suse.com
SCOSA-2005.32 SCO ftp.sco.com
Secunia - Advisories - Ubuntu update for cpio SECUNIA secunia.com
CPIO Filename Directory Traversal Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
17939 OSVDB www.osvdb.org
FreeBSD-SA-06:03 FREEBSD ftp.freebsd.org
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Secunia - Advisories - SCO OpenServer update for cpio SECUNIA secunia.com
'cpio directory traversal vulnerability' - MARC BUGTRAQ marc.info
SUSE Updates for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2006-08-30Mark J CoxThis is defined and documented behaviour: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=156313
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