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CVE-2010-4226

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-02-06 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

cpio, as used in build 2007.05.10, 2010.07.28, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink within an RPM package archive.

Affected products

• GNU cpio: all versions
• Opensuse: 2007.05.10, 2010.07.28

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-03/msg00008.html
• http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4226.html
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665768
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-03/msg00008.html
• http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4226.html
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665768

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