Debian Security Advisory
DSA-664-1 cpio -- broken file permissions
- Date Reported:
- 02 Feb 2005
- Affected Packages:
- cpio
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-1999-1572.
- More information:
-
It has been discovered, that cpio, a program to manage archives of files, creates output files with -O and -F with broken permissions due to a reset zero umask which allows local users to read or overwrite those files.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.2-39woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your cpio package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cpio/cpio_2.4.2-39woody1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.