National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-0060

Overview

RPM before 4.9.1.3 does not properly validate region tags, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an invalid region tag in a package header to the (1) headerLoad, (2) rpmReadSignature, or (3) headerVerify function.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:0589

Hyperlink:https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14441362

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:0588

Hyperlink:https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14440932

External Source: MISC

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744858

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744858

External Source: XF

Name: rpm-loadsigverify-code-execution(74582)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/74582

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1695-1

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

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1026882

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026882

External Source: BID

Name: 52865

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52865

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 81010

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/81010

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 49110

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/49110

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 48716

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/48716

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 48651

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/48651

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.9.1.3

Hyperlink:http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.9.1.3

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git;a=commitdiff;h=f23998251992b8ae25faf5113c42fee2c49c7f29

Hyperlink:http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git;a=commitdiff;h=f23998251992b8ae25faf5113c42fee2c49c7f29

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git;a=commitdiff;h=e4eab2bc6d07cfd33f740071de7ddbb2fe2f4190

Hyperlink:http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git;a=commitdiff;h=e4eab2bc6d07cfd33f740071de7ddbb2fe2f4190

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2012:0531

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2012:0451

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0451.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2012-5421

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078907.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2012-5420

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078819.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2012-5298

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/077960.html