Security Advisory

CVE-2010-0624

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2010-03-12 20:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 00:52:19
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the rmt_read__ function in lib/rtapelib.c in the rmt client functionality in GNU tar before 1.23 and GNU cpio before 2.11 allows remote rmt servers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code by sending more data than was requested, related to archive filenames that contain a : (colon) character.