CVE-2005-4268
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
02 Description
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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.54% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 45.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2005-12-15 18:08Z20 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 23:38Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2005-12-15
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- f4f07b840fb6387a47ba079ba753d0326821ac65bd82ddc0db11a7561964041e
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com25098http://secunia.com/advisories/25098
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2007:0245http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0245.html
- secunia.com25161http://secunia.com/advisories/25161
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comcpio-file-size-bo(23855)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23855
- issues.rpath.comhttps://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1338
- ftp.freebsd.orgFreeBSD-SA-06:03ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:03.cpio.asc
- secunia.com18280http://secunia.com/advisories/18280
- www.osvdb.org22194http://www.osvdb.org/22194
- frontal1.mandriva.comMDKSA-2005:237http://frontal1.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:237
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:6860https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6860
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2010:0145http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0145.html
- lists.suse.comSUSE-SR:2006:010http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-May/0004.html
- secunia.com20117http://secunia.com/advisories/20117
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=172669
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:10450https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10450
- www.securityfocus.com16057http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16057
- secunia.com18278http://secunia.com/advisories/18278
- secunia.com18395http://secunia.com/advisories/18395
- secunia.com18251http://secunia.com/advisories/18251
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-234-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/234-1/
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- cpio Fixed in 2.6-10
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- cpio Fixed in 2.6-10
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- cpio Fixed in 2.6-10
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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