CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-0061

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2012-06-04 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-06-04
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

The headerLoad function in lib/header.c in RPM before 4.9.1.3 does not properly validate region tags, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large region size in a package header.

Affected configurations

• rpm rpm (<= 4.9.1.2) • rpm rpm 1.2 • rpm rpm 1.3 • rpm rpm 1.3.1 • rpm rpm 1.4 • rpm rpm 1.4.1 • rpm rpm 1.4.2 • rpm rpm 1.4.2\/a • rpm rpm 1.4.3 • rpm rpm 1.4.4 • rpm rpm 1.4.5 • rpm rpm 1.4.6 • rpm rpm 1.4.7 • rpm rpm 2.0 • rpm rpm 2.0.1 • rpm rpm 2.0.2 • rpm rpm 2.0.3 • rpm rpm 2.0.4 • rpm rpm 2.0.5 • rpm rpm 2.0.6 • rpm rpm 2.0.7 • rpm rpm 2.0.8 • rpm rpm 2.0.9 • rpm rpm 2.0.10 • rpm rpm 2.0.11 • rpm rpm 2.1 • rpm rpm 2.1.1 • rpm rpm 2.1.2 • rpm rpm 2.2 • rpm rpm 2.2.1 • rpm rpm 2.2.2 • rpm rpm 2.2.3 • rpm rpm 2.2.3.10 • rpm rpm 2.2.3.11 • rpm rpm 2.2.4 • rpm rpm 2.2.5 • rpm rpm 2.2.6 • rpm rpm 2.2.7 • rpm rpm 2.2.8 • rpm rpm 2.2.9 • rpm rpm 2.2.10 • rpm rpm 2.2.11 • rpm rpm 2.3 • rpm rpm 2.3.1 • rpm rpm 2.3.2 • rpm rpm 2.3.3 • rpm rpm 2.3.4 • rpm rpm 2.3.5 • rpm rpm 2.3.6 • rpm rpm 2.3.7 • rpm rpm 2.3.8 • rpm rpm 2.3.9 • rpm rpm 2.4.1 • rpm rpm 2.4.2 • rpm rpm 2.4.3 • rpm rpm 2.4.4 • rpm rpm 2.4.5 • rpm rpm 2.4.6 • rpm rpm 2.4.8 • rpm rpm 2.4.9 … and 38 more

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References