Oracle Linux 7 : cpio (ELSA-2015-2108)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 87021

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2015:2108 :

Updated cpio packages that fix one security issue and two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

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

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in cpio's list_file() function. An attacker could provide a specially crafted archive that, when processed by cpio, would crash cpio, or potentially lead to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2014-9112)

This update fixes the following bugs :

* Previously, during archive creation, cpio internals did not detect a read() system call failure. Based on the premise that the call succeeded, cpio terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault without processing further files. The underlying source code has been patched, and an archive is now created successfully. (BZ#1138148)

* Previously, running the cpio command without parameters on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 with Russian as the default language resulted in an error message that was not accurate in Russian due to an error in spelling. This has been corrected and the Russian error message is spelled correctly. (BZ#1075513)

All cpio users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.

Solution

Update the affected cpio package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 87021

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-2108.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Oracle Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 11/24/2015

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cpio, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/23/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/2/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9112

RHSA: 2015:2108

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