CVE-2012-0061

Description

The headerLoad function in lib/header.c in RPM before 4.9.1.3 does not properly validate region tags, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large region size in a package header.

References

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://secunia.com/advisories/48651

http://secunia.com/advisories/48716

http://secunia.com/advisories/49110

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:056

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html

http://www.osvdb.org/81010

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

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

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798585

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74583

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

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

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2