RedHat cpio CVE-2021-38185 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Description

The cpio packages provide the GNU cpio utility for creating and extracting archives, or copying files from one place to another. Security Fix(es): cpio: integer overflow in ds_fgetstr() in dstring.c can lead to an out-of-bounds write via a crafted pattern file (CVE-2021-38185) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Release Notes linked from the References section. SolutionFor details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Applications

cpio

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