Numeric Errors Affecting rpm package, versions <0:4.11.2-2.58.amzn1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
36.9% (98th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-AMZN201803-RPM-1680987
- published 27 Sep 2021
- disclosed 16 Dec 2014
Introduced: 16 Dec 2014
CVE-2014-8118 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03
rpm
to version 0:4.11.2-2.58.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2014-458
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rpm
package and not the rpm
package as distributed by Amazon-Linux
.
See How to fix?
for Amazon-Linux:2018.03
relevant fixed versions and status.
Integer overflow in RPM 4.12 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted CPIO header in the payload section of an RPM file, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0529.html
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8118
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3129
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-22
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:251
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:056
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1976.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:1976
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8118
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1168715