Debian Security Advisory DSA 1566-1 (cpio)

The remote host is missing an update to cpio announced via advisory DSA 1566-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb15661.nasl 6616 2017-07-07 12:10:49Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 1566-1 cpio Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc...

Debian DSA-1566-1 : cpio - programming error

Dmitry Levin discovered a vulnerability in path handling code used by the cpio archive utility. The weakness could enable a denial of service crash or potentially the execution of arbitrary code if a vulnerable version of cpio is used to extract or to list the contents of a maliciously crafted...