National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-0815

Overview

The headerVerifyInfo function in lib/header.c in RPM before 4.9.1.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a negative value in a region offset of a package header, which is not properly handled in a numeric range comparison.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

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

Type: Patch Information

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

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git;a=commitdiff;h=858a328cd0f7d4bcd8500c78faaf00e4f8033df6

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git;a=commitdiff;h=858a328cd0f7d4bcd8500c78faaf00e4f8033df6

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git;a=commitdiff;h=472e569562d4c90d7a298080e0052856aa7fa86b

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git;a=commitdiff;h=472e569562d4c90d7a298080e0052856aa7fa86b

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=744104

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744104

External Source: XF

Name: rpm-headerverifyinfo-code-execution(74581)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/74581

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: 81009

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/81009

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: 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