===========================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-650-1 October 02, 2008cpio vulnerabilityCVE-2007-4476===========================================================A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:Ubuntu 6.06 LTSUbuntu 7.04Ubuntu 7.10This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions ofKubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to thefollowing package versions:Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: cpio 2.6-10ubuntu0.3Ubuntu 7.04: cpio 2.6-17ubuntu0.7.04.1Ubuntu 7.10: cpio 2.8-1ubuntu2.2In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect thenecessary changes.Details follow:A buffer overflow was discovered in cpio. If a user were tricked intoopening a crafted cpio archive, an attacker could cause a denial ofservice via application crash, or possibly execute code with theprivileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2007-4476)
Due to budget constraints I have to reinvent an Enterprise backup system in a SPARC (sun4v) Solaris estate (10 & 11). (yep - reinvent wheel, fun but time consuming. Is this wise?! :confused: )
For each filesystem of interest, to try to capture a 'catalog' at the front of each cpio archive (for... (1 Reply)