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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-189-1 September 29, 2005
cpio vulnerabilities
CAN-2005-1111, CAN-2005-1229
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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:
Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)
Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog)
The following packages are affected:
cpio
The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to
version 2.5-1.1ubuntu0.2 (for Ubuntu 4.10), or 2.5-1.1ubuntu1.1 (for
Ubuntu 5.04). In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to
effect the necessary changes.
Details follow:
Imran Ghory found a race condition in the handling of output files.
While a file was unpacked with cpio, a local attacker with write
permissions to the target directory could exploit this to change the
permissions of arbitrary files of the cpio user. (CAN-2005-1111)
Imran Ghory discovered a path traversal vulnerability. Even when the
--no-absolute-filenames option was specified, cpio did not filter out
".." path components. By tricking an user into unpacking a malicious
cpio archive, this could be exploited to install files in arbitrary
paths with the privileges of the user calling cpio. (CAN-2005-1229)
Updated packages for Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog):
Source archives:
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.5-1.1ubuntu0.2.diff.gz
Size/MD5: 27421 3800b28741820b67d89b8be0ca1b4c3a
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.5-1.1ubuntu0.2.dsc
Size/MD5: 551 536a242096b46cbac9caf1e034e89f88
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.5.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5: 185480 e02859af1bbbbd73fcbf757acb57e0a4
amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon)
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.5-1.1ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb
Size/MD5: 68648 777b4ff7fa18697307311f3f306a61dd
i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD)
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.5-1.1ubuntu0.2_i386.deb
Size/MD5: 64158 6c8ee133865b826e666fe035eba229c2
powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5)
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.5-1.1ubuntu0.2_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5: 67678 a52efbe49389c50a4c6abed05dd79e95
Updated packages for Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog):
Source archives:
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.5-1.1ubuntu1.1.diff.gz
Size/MD5: 27418 0fb7a011377dd62652cacc4366d44baf
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.5-1.1ubuntu1.1.dsc
Size/MD5: 551 d78ae16b8c3bcf9bdc9348dd7dd3d02f
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.5.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5: 185480 e02859af1bbbbd73fcbf757acb57e0a4
amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon)
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.5-1.1ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5: 68686 00a2b4f57d4766e778f5de385c544549
i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD)
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.5-1.1ubuntu1.1_i386.deb
Size/MD5: 63972 b46cbb91273fc79d7ac1c82c3f0a27c5
powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5)
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.5-1.1ubuntu1.1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5: 67680 7f47d3eae5b01639f80c051ba77fbaa6
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