USN-4176-1: GNU cpio vulnerability

6 November 2019

GNU cpio could be used to privilege escalation if it received a specially crafted input.

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Thomas Habets discovered that GNU cpio incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to privilege escalation.

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The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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