National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-4268
Original release date:12/15/2005
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Buffer overflow in cpio 2.6-8.FC4 on 64-bit platforms, when creating a cpio archive, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a file whose size is represented by more than 8 digits.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
1.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)
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Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=172865
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1338
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=172669
External Source: XF
Name: cpio-file-size-bo(23855)
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-234-1
External Source: BID
Name: 16057
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2007:0245
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 22194
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25161
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25098
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20117
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18395
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18280
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18278
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18251
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2006:010
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2005:237
External Source: FREEBSD
Name: FreeBSD-SA-06:03