CVE-2005-4268

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Summary

CVECVE-2005-4268
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-12-15 18:11:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionBuffer 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 3.7 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
High
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Cpio 2.6-8 All fedora_core_4_64bit All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
172669 – CVE-2005-4268 cpio large filesize buffer overflow af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
SUSE Updates for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SuSE Security announcements: [suse-security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report SUSE-SR:2006:010 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.suse.com
Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:03.cpio.asc af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.freebsd.org
Secunia - Advisories - Ubuntu update for cpio af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
CPIO File Size Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
rPath update for cpio - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Cpio Large File Size Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Secunia - Advisories - Fedora update for cpio af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Secunia - Advisories - FreeBSD update for cpio af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Red Hat Update for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
www.osvdb.org/22194 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
mandriva.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 frontal1.mandriva.com
USN-234-1: cpio vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 usn.ubuntu.com
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1338 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 issues.rpath.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 Hat2010-03-15Mark J CoxThis issue was addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0245.html and in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0145.html. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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