National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-1229
Original release date:05/02/2005
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Directory traversal vulnerability in cpio 2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary directories via a .. (dot dot) in a cpio file.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/30/2006)
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This is defined and documented behaviour:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=156313
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External Source: XF
Name: cpio-directory-traversal(20204)
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-189-1
External Source: BID
Name: 13291
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 17939
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2007:233
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-846
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27857
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20117
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18395
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18290
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 17123
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 16998
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20050420 cpio directory traversal vulnerability
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2006:010
External Source: SCO
Name: SCOSA-2005.32
External Source: SCO
Name: SCOSA-2006.2
External Source: FREEBSD
Name: FreeBSD-SA-06:03