[Technik] [SECURITY] [DSA 1566-1] New cpio packages fix denial of service

Noèl Köthe noel at debian.org
Mon May 5 10:43:46 CEST 2008


Am Freitag, den 02.05.2008, 16:00 +0100 schrieb Steve Kemp:

> Debian Security Advisory DSA-1566-1                  security at debian.org
> http://www.debian.org/security/                               Steve Kemp
> May 02, 2008                          http://www.debian.org/security/faq
> 
> Package        : cpio
> Vulnerability  : programming error
> Problem type   : local (remote)
> Debian-specific: no
> CVE Id(s)      : CVE-2007-4476

cpio wurde auf allen Rechnern aktualisiert.

> For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
> version 2.6-18.1+etch1.

changelog:
cpio (2.6-18.1+etch1) stable-security; urgency=high

  * Non-maintainer upload by the security team.
  * Apply upstream patch for CVE-2007-4476, correcting an allocation
    weakness in safer_name_suffix() which could lead to a crash

 -- Devin Carraway <devin at debian.org>  Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:25:09 +0000

-- 
Noèl Köthe <noel debian.org>
Debian GNU/Linux, www.debian.org
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