CVE-2026-66485

GNU cpio is vulnerable to an uncontrolled memory allocation in the makepath function at src/makepath.c. The function uses alloca to allocate stack memory based on the length of argpath, which is derived from an archive-controlled pathname during extraction. A malicious cpio archive containing a...

CVE-2026-66486

GNU cpio is vulnerable to improper output encoding in archive member listings. When listing members with cpio -it, member names are printed directly to output without quoting or escaping, allowing crafted member names containing newline characters or ANSI escape sequences to produce forged listin...

CVE-2026-66485 Uncontrolled Memory Allocation in GNU cpio

GNU cpio is vulnerable to an uncontrolled memory allocation in the makepath function at src/makepath.c. The function uses alloca to allocate stack memory based on the length of argpath, which is derived from an archive-controlled pathname during extraction. A malicious cpio archive containing a...

CVE-2026-66485

GNU cpio is affected by an uncontrolled memory allocation in make_path (src/makepath.c) that uses alloca based on the length of argpath, derived from an archive-controlled pathname during extraction. A crafted cpio archive with a long nested pathname can trigger unbounded stack allocation, causin...

EUVD-2026-55255

GNU cpio is vulnerable to an uncontrolled memory allocation in the makepath function at src/makepath.c. The function uses alloca to allocate stack memory based on the length of argpath, which is derived from an archive-controlled pathname during extraction. A malicious cpio archive containing a...

CVE-2026-66484

GNU cpio has a Path Traversal vulnerability in tar extraction (copy-in mode with --no-absolute-filenames). A tar archive with a hard-link entry whose linkname is an absolute path can cause a hard link to a file outside the extraction directory because the hard-link target is passed to link_to_nam...

EUVD-2026-55256

GNU cpio contains a Path Traversal vulnerability in its tar archive extraction functionality. When extracting a tar archive in copy-in mode with the --no-absolute-filenames option, the extracted file name is normalized but the tar hard-link target is passed to the linktoname function without...

EUVD-2010-0655

Malware in sbrugna...

EUVD-2014-8938

Malware in sbrugna...

TencentOS Server 3: cpio (TSSA-2022:0199)

The version of Tencent Linux installed on the remote TencentOS Server 3 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the TSSA-2022:0199 advisory. Package updates are available for TencentOS Server 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:...

Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0211: cpio (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0211)

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2022:0211 advisory. Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-38185: GNU cpio through 2.13 allows...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2014-9112

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Heap-based buffer overflow in the processcopyin function in GNU Cpio 2.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large block value in a cpio...

USN-6755-1: GNU cpio vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

Severity Medium Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 Description Ingo Brückl discovered that cpio contained a path traversal vulnerability. If a user or automated system were tricked into extracting a specially crafted cpio archive, an attacker could possibly use this...

USN-6755-1: GNU cpio vulnerabilities

Ingo Brückl discovered that cpio contained a path traversal vulnerability. If a user or automated system were tricked into extracting a specially crafted cpio archive, an attacker could possibly use this issue to write arbitrary files outside the target directory on the host, even if using the...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 : GNU cpio vulnerabilities (USN-6755-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6755-1 advisory. Ingo Brckl discovered that cpio contained a path traversal vulnerability. If a user or automated system were tricked into extracting a special...

CentOS 9 : cpio-2.13-16.el9

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the cpio-2.13-16.el9 build changelog. - GNU cpio through 2.13 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted pattern file, because of a dstring.c dsfgetstr integer overflow that...

NewStart CGSL MAIN 6.06 : cpio Vulnerability (NS-SA-2023-0088)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 6.06, has cpio packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability: - GNU cpio through 2.13 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted pattern file, because of a dstring.c dsfgetstr integer overflow that triggers an out-of-boun...

Rocky Linux 8 : cpio (RLSA-2022:1991)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2022:1991 advisory. - GNU cpio through 2.13 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted pattern file, because of a dstring.c dsfgetstr integer overflow that triggers an...

CVE-2023-39810

A flaw was found in the BusyBox tool. This issue occurs in the cpio command of BusyBox and may allow attackers to execute a directory traversal. If untrusted archives are extracted, this can result in files written outside of the destination directory or files being overwritten that contain...

Medium: cpio

Issue Overview: GNU cpio through 2.13 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted pattern file, because of a dstring.c dsfgetstr integer overflow that triggers an out-of-bounds heap write. NOTE: it is unclear whether there are common cases where the pattern file, associated with the ...