CVE-2012-0061

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-06-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: 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 products

RPM: through 4.9.1.2; 1.2, 1.3, 1.3.1, 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.4.2 (+98)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/077960.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078819.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078907.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0451.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.html
http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=472e569562d4c90d7a298080e0052856aa7fa86b
http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=858a328cd0f7d4bcd8500c78faaf00e4f8033df6
http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.9.1.3
http://secunia.com/advisories/48651
http://secunia.com/advisories/48716
http://secunia.com/advisories/49110
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:056

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