CVE-2010-0624
gnu: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
- EPSS
- 4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 91% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- gnu:cpio
- gnu:tar
References
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10691
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/036668.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037395.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037401.html