Secunia Security Advisory - FreeBSD has issued an update for cpio. This fixes a vulnerability, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and by malicious people to cause files to be unpacked to arbitrary locations on a user's system.
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TITLE:
FreeBSD update for cpio
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18395
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18395/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Manipulation of data, DoS
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
FreeBSD 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/6778/
FreeBSD 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/1132/
FreeBSD 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/139/
DESCRIPTION:
FreeBSD has issued an update for cpio. This fixes a vulnerability,
which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause
a DoS (Denial of Service) and by malicious people to cause files to be
unpacked to arbitrary locations on a user's system.
For more information:
SA7745
SA18251
This update also fixes a race condition when setting file
permissions.
SOLUTION:
Update FreeBSD or apply patch.
Fixed versions:
2006-01-11 08:02:16 UTC (RELENG_6, 6.0-STABLE)
2006-01-11 08:03:18 UTC (RELENG_6_0, 6.0-RELEASE-p2)
2006-01-11 08:03:55 UTC (RELENG_5, 5.4-STABLE)
2006-01-11 08:04:33 UTC (RELENG_5_4, 5.4-RELEASE-p9)
2006-01-11 08:05:54 UTC (RELENG_5_3, 5.3-RELEASE-p24)
2006-01-11 08:06:47 UTC (RELENG_4, 4.11-STABLE)
2006-01-11 08:07:18 UTC (RELENG_4_11, 4.11-RELEASE-p14)
2006-01-11 08:08:08 UTC (RELENG_4_10, 4.10-RELEASE-p20)
Patch for FreeBSD 4.10, 4.11, 5.3, 5.4, and 6.0:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/patches/SA-06:03/cpio.patch
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:03.cpio.asc
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA7745:
http://secunia.com/advisories/7745/
SA18251:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18251/
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