cpio
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- Author: voroskoi
- Vulnerable: 2.9-1
- Unaffected: 2.9-2sayshell1
There is a vulnerability in cpio, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing specially crafted tar archives and can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow and crash the vulnerable application.
- Bug Tracker URL: http://bugs.frugalware.org/task/2570