Debian's cpio contains a path traversal vulnerability. This issue was introduced by reverting CVE-2015-1197 patches which had caused a regression in --no-absolute-filenames. Upstream has since provided a proper fix to --no-absolute-filenames.

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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-7216

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A path traversal vulnerability was found in the CPIO utility. This issue could allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to trick a user into opening a specially...

[SECURITY] Fedora 42 Update: libarchive-3.8.1-1.fc42

Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including most popular tar variants, several cpio formats, and both BSD and GNU ar variants. It can also write shar archives and read ISO9660 CDROM images and ZIP archives...

RHEL 9 : libarchive (RHSA-2025:14142)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:14142 advisory. The libarchive programming library can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including GNU tar, cpio, and ISO 9660 CD-ROM...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-8637

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A local information disclosure issue was found in dracut before 045 when generating initramfs images with world-readable permissions when 'early cpio' is used,...

Security update for grub2

This update for grub2 fixes the following issues: CVE-2025-4382: Fixed TPM auto-decryption data exposure bsc1242971 Filter out the non-subvolume btrfs mount points when creating the relative path bsc1239674 CVE-2024-45781: Fixed ufs strcpy overflow bsc1233617 CVE-2024-56737: Fixed heap-based buff...

SUSE-SU-2025:20511-1 Security update for grub2

This update for grub2 fixes the following issues: - CVE-2025-4382: Fixed TPM auto-decryption data exposure bsc1242971 - Filter out the non-subvolume btrfs mount points when creating the relative path bsc1239674 - CVE-2024-45781: Fixed ufs strcpy overflow bsc1233617 - CVE-2024-56737: Fixed...

OESA-2025-1886 busybox security update

BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. It provides a fairly complete environment for any small or embedded system. Security Fixes: An issue ...

OESA-2025-1885 busybox security update

BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. It provides a fairly complete environment for any small or embedded system. Security Fixes: An issue ...

OESA-2025-1884 busybox security update

BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. It provides a fairly complete environment for any small or embedded system. Security Fixes: An issue ...

NewStart CGSL MAIN 7.02 : cpio Vulnerability (NS-SA-2025-0164)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 7.02, has cpio packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability: - cpio 2.11, when using the --no-absolute-filenames option, allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an archive. CVE-2015-1197 Note...

OESA-2025-1857 busybox security update

BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. It provides a fairly complete environment for any small or embedded system. Security Fixes: An issue ...

OESA-2025-1856 busybox security update

BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. It provides a fairly complete environment for any small or embedded system. Security Fixes: An issue ...

OESA-2025-1855 busybox security update

BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. It provides a fairly complete environment for any small or embedded system. Security Fixes: An issue ...

Photon OS 5.0: Cpio PHSA-2025-5.0-0537

An update of the cpio package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2025-5.0-0537. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

ALSA-2025:9420 Moderate: libarchive security update

The libarchive programming library can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including GNU tar, cpio, and ISO 9660 CD-ROM images. Libarchive is used notably in the bsdtar utility, scripting language bindings such as python-libarchive, and several popular desktop file...

ALSA-2025:9431 Moderate: libarchive security update

The libarchive programming library can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including GNU tar, cpio, and ISO 9660 CD-ROM images. Libarchive is used notably in the bsdtar utility, scripting language bindings such as python-libarchive, and several popular desktop file...

Important Photon OS Security Update - PHSA-2025-5.0-0537

Updates of 'apache-tomcat9', 'kafka', 'cpio', 'wireshark', 'apache-tomcat10' packages of Photon OS have been released...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Cpio

The vulnerability of the fromascii function in the copyin.c component of the Cpio compression utility is related to buffer overflows in the stack. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to gain access to confidential data, compromise its integrity, and cause service failures...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Cpio

The vulnerability of the readnamefromfile function in the Cpio archiving utility is related to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to gain access to confidential data and also cause service interruptions...