CVE-2012-0061 (GCVE-0-2012-0061)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-06-04 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 18:09
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026882 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.9.1.3 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/48716 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.osvdb.org/81010 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798585 x_refsource_MISC
http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3B… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/48651 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0451.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52865 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1695-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14440932 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/49110 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14441362 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3B… x_refsource_CONFIRM
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