USN-5064-3

Maverick Chung and Qiaoyi Fang discovered that cpio incorrectly handled certain pattern files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause cpio to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS / cpio

Package

Name: cpio
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/cpio@2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu1.2+esm2?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu1.2+esm2

Affected versions

2.*

2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu1

2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1

2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu1.2

2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu1.2+esm1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "cpio",
            "binary_version": "2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu1.2+esm2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

{
    "cves_map": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS",
        "cves": [
            {
                "severity": [
                    {
                        "type": "CVSS_V3",
                        "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                    },
                    {
                        "type": "CVSS_V3",
                        "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                    },
                    {
                        "type": "Ubuntu",
                        "score": "medium"
                    }
                ],
                "id": "CVE-2021-38185"
            }
        ]
    }
}