USN-2456-1

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USN-2456-1

Summary: cpio vulnerabilities

Details: Michal Zalewski discovered an out of bounds write issue in the process_copy_in function of GNU cpio. An attacker could specially craft a cpio archive that could create a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-9112) Jakob Lell discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the rmt_read__ function of GNU cpio's rmt client functionality. An attacker controlling a remote rmt server could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. (CVE-2010-0624)

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2456-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2010-0624, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9112