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Redhat Security Update Fixes Multiple Cpio Vulnerabilities

Title : Redhat Security Update Fixes Multiple Cpio Vulnerabilities
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2005-2383
CVE ID : CVE-1999-1572 - CVE-2005-1111
Rated as : Low Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-11-10

Advisory Details

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Technical Description

Redhat has released updated packages to correct two vulnerabilities identified in Cpio. The first issue is due to a race condition which allows local users to modify permissions of arbitrary files via a hard link attack on a file while it is being decompressed, whose permissions are changed by cpio after the decompression is complete. The second vulnerability is due to an error when creating files using the "-O" or "-F" options, which could allow local users to read or overwrite arbitrary files. For additional information, see : FrSIRT/ADV-2005-1051

ChangeLog

2005-11-10 : Initial release

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