cpio 2.11, when using the --no-absolute-filenames option, allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an archive.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2007-4476 to the following vulnerability:

Bug in the safernamesuffix function in GNU tar may lead to a "crashing stack". It can be used to crash tar while extracting archive containing file with long name containing unsafe prefix.

Affected function is also part of cpio source code.

References:

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/200718sr.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-cpio/2007-08/msg00002.html

Buffer overflow in cpio 2.6-8.FC4 on 64-bit platforms, when creating a cpio archive, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a file whose size is represented by more than 8 digits.