National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-3378

Overview

RPM 4.4.x through 4.9.x, probably before 4.9.1.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an rpm package with crafted headers and offsets that are not properly handled when a package is queried or installed, related to (1) the regionSwab function, (2) the headerLoad function, and (3) multiple functions in rpmio/rpmpgp.c.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741612

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741612

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741606

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741606

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1695-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1695-1

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:1349

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1349.html

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110927 rpm/librpm/rpm-python memory corruption pre-verification

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/27/3

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2011:143

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:143

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.9.1.2#Security

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.9.1.2#Security

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git;a=commitdiff;h=a48f0e20cbe2ababc88b2fc52fb7a281d6fc1656

Hyperlink:http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git;a=commitdiff;h=a48f0e20cbe2ababc88b2fc52fb7a281d6fc1656

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git;a=commitdiff;h=11a7e5d95a8ca8c7d4eaff179094afd8bb74fc3f

Hyperlink:http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git;a=commitdiff;h=11a7e5d95a8ca8c7d4eaff179094afd8bb74fc3f

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SU-2011:1140

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00002.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2011:1203

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00000.html