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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3129-1 rpm -- security update

Date Reported:

15 Jan 2015

Affected Packages:

rpm

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-6435, CVE-2014-8118.

More information:

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the RPM package manager.

• CVE-2013-6435

  Florian Weimer discovered a race condition in package signature validation.

• CVE-2014-8118

  Florian Weimer discovered an integer overflow in parsing CPIO headers which might result in the execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 4.10.0-5+deb7u2.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 4.11.3-1.1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 4.11.3-1.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your rpm packages.