Description
The headerLoad function in lib/header.c in RPM before 4.9.1.3 does not properly validate region tags, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large region size in a package header.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
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n/aaffected
References
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.html ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:056 ↗
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026882 ↗
- http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.9.1.3 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48716 ↗
- http://www.osvdb.org/81010 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798585 ↗
- http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=472e569562d4c90d7a298080e0052856aa7fa86b ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48651 ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0451.html ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078907.html ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52865 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1695-1 ↗
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14440932 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49110 ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078819.html ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/077960.html ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74583 ↗
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14441362 ↗
- http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=858a328cd0f7d4bcd8500c78faaf00e4f8033df6 ↗