PT-2013-1881 · Rpm · Rpm

Jan Lieskovsky · Published 2013-01-18 · Updated 2023-02-13 · CVE-2012-6088

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions RPM versions 4.10.x through 4.10.1

Description The issue concerns the rpmpkgRead function in lib/package.c, which fails to return an error code when encountering an "unparseable signature" in certain situations. This allows remote attackers to bypass RPM signature checks by crafting a malicious package.

Recommendations For RPM versions 4.10.x through 4.10.1, update to version 4.10.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-255

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-6088

Affected Products

Rpm

References · 12

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6088 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6088 · Security Note
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1694-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51706 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6088 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-6088 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.10.2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796375 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/03/9 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80953 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/57138 · Note
• http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3d74c43 · Note