CVE-2010-4226 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

cpio, as used in build 2007.05.10, 2010.07.28, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink within an RPM package archive.

cpio, as used in build 2007.05.10, 2010.07.28, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink within an RPM package archive.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2014-02-06 17:00:00

Last updated 11 years ago

2014-02-07 20:57:00

Affected Software

GNU cpio

References

SUSE-SR:2011:005

openSUSE-SU-2011:0174

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4226.html

Vendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665768

Vendor Advisory

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