| Revision Date: | 2005-02-15 | Version: | 502 |
| Title: | RHSA-2005:073: cpio security update (Low) |
| Description: | GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive.
It was discovered that cpio uses a 0 umask when creating files using the -O (archive) option. This creates output files with mode 0666 (all can read and write) regardless of the user's umask setting. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-1999-1572 to this issue.
Users of cpio should upgrade to this updated package, which resolves this issue.
Red Hat would like to thank Mike O'Connor for bringing this issue to our attention.
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| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Status: | | Reference(s): | CVE-1999-1572
RHSA-2005:073-01
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| Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
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| Definition Synopsis |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 is installed AND cpio is earlier than 0:2.5-7.EL4.1
AND cpio is signed with Red Hat master key
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