<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201502-11"> <title>GNU cpio: Multiple vulnerabilities</title> <synopsis>Two vulnerabilities have been found in GNU cpio, the worst of which could result in execution of arbitrary code. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">cpio</product> <announced>2015-02-15</announced> <revised count="1">2015-02-15</revised> <bug>530512</bug> <bug>536010</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="app-arch/cpio" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">2.11-r3</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">2.11-r3</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive.</p> </background> <description> <p>Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in GNU cpio:</p> <ul> <li>The list_file function in GNU cpio contains a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2014-9112) </li> <li>A directory traversal vulnerability has been found in GNU cpio (CVE-2015-1197) </li> </ul> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p>A remote attacker may be able to entice a user to open a specially crafted archive using GNU cpio, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code, a Denial of Service condition, or overwriting arbitrary files. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All GNU cpio users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-arch/cpio-2.11-r3" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-9112">CVE-2014-9112</uri> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1197">CVE-2015-1197</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2015-01-17T20:25:43Z">ackle</metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2015-02-15T14:35:14Z">ackle</metadata> </glsa>