VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-0624

medium
Published 2010-03-15 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2.11-1
sid Fixed 2.11-1
forky Fixed 2.11-1
bullseye Fixed 2.11-1
bookworm Fixed 2.11-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnucpio{"endIncluding":"2.10"}
gnucpio1.0
gnucpio1.1
gnucpio1.2
gnucpio1.3
gnucpio2.4-2
gnucpio2.5
gnucpio2.5.90
gnucpio2.6
gnucpio2.7
gnucpio2.8
gnucpio2.9
gnutar{"endIncluding":"1.22"}
gnutar1.13
gnutar1.13.5
gnutar1.13.11
gnutar1.13.14
gnutar1.13.16
gnutar1.13.17
gnutar1.13.18
gnutar1.13.19
gnutar1.13.25
gnutar1.14
gnutar1.14.1
gnutar1.14.90
gnutar1.15
gnutar1.15.1
gnutar1.15.90
gnutar1.15.91
gnutar1.16
gnutar1.16.1
gnutar1.17
gnutar1.18
gnutar1.19
gnutar1.20
gnutar1.21

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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