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To improve our services to our customers, we have made a number of
additions to the Secunia Advisories and have started translating the
advisories to German.

The improvements will help our customers to get a better
understanding of how we reached our conclusions, how it was rated,
our thoughts on exploitation, attack vectors, and scenarios.

This includes:
* Reason for rating
* Extended description
* Extended solution
* Exploit code or links to exploit code
* Deep links

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TITLE:
RPM Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA22740

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22740/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
RPM Package Manager 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/12490/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in RPM, which can be exploited by
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially
compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when processing
certain RPM packages. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based
buffer overflow by e.g. tricking a user into querying a specially
crafted RPM package.

Successful exploitation may allow the execution of arbitrary code,
but requires that certain locales are set (e.g. ru_RU.UTF-8).

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the CVS repository.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Vladimir Mosgalin

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212833

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