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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3129-1 (rpm - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the RPM package manager. CVE-2013-6435 Florian Weimer discovered a race condition in package signature validation. CVE-2014-8118 Florian Weimer discovered an integer overflow in parsing CPIO headers which might result in the execution of arbitrary code.
Affected Software
Affected Software
rpm on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 4.10.0-5+deb7u2. For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 4.11.3-1.1. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 4.11.3-1.1. We recommend that you upgrade your rpm packages.