CVE-2005-4268 (GCVE-0-2005-4268)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-12-15 18:08 – Updated: 2024-08-07 23:38
VLAI?
Summary
Buffer overflow in cpio 2.6-8.FC4 on 64-bit platforms, when creating a cpio archive, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a file whose size is represented by more than 8 digits.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
http://secunia.com/advisories/25098 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-02… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://secunia.com/advisories/25161 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1338 x_refsource_CONFIRM
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSD
http://secunia.com/advisories/18280 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.osvdb.org/22194 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://frontal1.mandriva.com/security/advisories?… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-01… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/20117 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16057 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/18278 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/18395 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/18251 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://usn.ubuntu.com/234-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
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