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Medium USN-6755-1 1 CVE

cpio vulnerabilities

Published Apr 29, 2024 · Updated Feb 10, 2026

Summary

Ingo Brückl discovered that cpio contained a path traversal vulnerability.
If a user or automated system were tricked into extracting a specially
crafted cpio archive, an attacker could possibly use this issue to write
arbitrary files outside the target directory on the host, even if using the
option --no-absolute-filenames.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS cpio 2.13+dfsg-2ubuntu0.4
Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS cpio 2.13+dfsg-7ubuntu0.1

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-7207