CVE-2005-4268 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2005-4268 at MITRE

Description

Buffer overflow in cpio 2.6-8.FC4 on 64-bit platforms, when creating a cpio archive, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a file whose size is represented by more than 8 digits.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently not rated by SUSE as it is not affecting the SUSE Enterprise products.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	3.7
Vector	AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	High
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 133454 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2006:010, published Fri, 12 May 2006 16:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 02:44:07 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:43 2025