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TITLE:
Gentoo update for cpio

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27681

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27681/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/339/

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for cpio. This fixes a vulnerability,
which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing specially
crafted tar archives and can be exploited to cause a stack-based
buffer overflow and crash the vulnerable application.

SOLUTION:
Update to "app-arch/cpio-2.9-r1" or later.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-18.xml

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