---------------------------------------------------------------------- To improve our services to our customers, we have made a number of additions to the Secunia Advisories and have started translating the advisories to German. The improvements will help our customers to get a better understanding of how we reached our conclusions, how it was rated, our thoughts on exploitation, attack vectors, and scenarios. This includes: * Reason for rating * Extended description * Extended solution * Exploit code or links to exploit code * Deep links Read the full description: http://corporate.secunia.com/products/48/?r=l Contact Secunia Sales for more information: http://corporate.secunia.com/how_to_buy/15/?r=l ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: RPM Buffer Overflow Vulnerability SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA22740 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/22740/ CRITICAL: Less critical IMPACT: DoS, System access WHERE: >From remote SOFTWARE: RPM Package Manager 4.x http://secunia.com/product/12490/ DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability has been reported in RPM, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when processing certain RPM packages. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow by e.g. tricking a user into querying a specially crafted RPM package. Successful exploitation may allow the execution of arbitrary code, but requires that certain locales are set (e.g. ru_RU.UTF-8). SOLUTION: Fixed in the CVS repository. PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: Vladimir Mosgalin ORIGINAL ADVISORY: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212833 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About: This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest vulnerabilities. Subscribe: http://secunia.com/secunia_security_advisories/ Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.) http://secunia.com/about_secunia_advisories/ Please Note: Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by clicking the link. Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories. Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only use those supplied by the vendor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: Secunia Security Advisories http://secunia.com/sec_adv_unsubscribe/?email=packet%40packetstormsecurity.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------