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Medium RLSA-2022:1991 1 CVE

Moderate: cpio security update

Published May 10, 2022 · Updated Feb 4, 2026

Summary

The cpio packages provide the GNU cpio utility for creating and extracting archives, or copying files from one place to another.

Security Fix(es):

* cpio: integer overflow in ds_fgetstr() in dstring.c can lead to an out-of-bounds write via a crafted pattern file (CVE-2021-38185)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 cpio 0:2.12-11.el8

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1991731