CVE-2010-4226

State: Published
Severity: 7.2 High
Published: Feb 6, 2014
Updated: Jun 9, 2025
Reserved: Nov 10, 2010

Description

cpio, as used in build 2007.05.10, 2010.07.28, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink within an RPM package archive.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.2 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4226.html
SUSE-SR:2011:005vendor-advisory
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665768
openSUSE-SU-2011:0174vendor-advisory

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