Summary
Maverick Chung and Qiaoyi Fang discovered that cpio incorrectly handled
certain pattern files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause cpio
to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code.
Fixed packages 2
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS | cpio | 2.12+dfsg-6ubuntu0.18.04.4 |
| Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS | cpio | 2.13+dfsg-2ubuntu0.3 |
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.8CVE-2021-38185 Public exploit
GNU cpio through 2.13 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted pattern file, because of a dstring.c ds_…
References
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report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-38185