CVE-2010-0624

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-03-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

GNU cpio: through 2.10; 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.4-2, 2.5 (+5)
GNU Tar: through 1.22; 1.13, 1.13.5, 1.13.11, 1.13.14, 1.13.16, 1.13.17 (+17)

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
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/038134.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/038149.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00001.html
http://osvdb.org/62950
http://secunia.com/advisories/38869
http://secunia.com/advisories/38988
http://secunia.com/advisories/39008

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