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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 18:43:32 -0300
From: Gustavo Grieco <gustavo.grieco@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: CVE request: out-of-bounds write with cpio 2.11
2016-01-29 17:52 GMT-03:00 anarcat <anarcat@...ngeseeds.org>:
> I can't actually reproduce this on Debian, which runs 2.11 all the way
> back to squeeze:
>
> (gdb) run -i < ../overflow.cpio
> Starting program: /bin/cpio -i < ../overflow.cpio
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> Using host libthread_db library
> "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
> /bin/cpio: Malformed number0000000
> /bin/cpio: warning: skipped 8 bytes of junk
> /bin/cpio: Substituting `.' for empty member name
> /bin/cpio: . not created: newer or same age version exists
> /bin/cpio: premature end of file
> [Inferior 1 (process 191) exited with code 02]
>
> Did i miss something?
>
Yeap, you need to user valgrind to expose this issue:
$ valgrind cpio -i < ../overflow.cpio
>
> a.
> --
> The United States is a nation of laws:
> badly written and randomly enforced.
> - Frank Zappa
>
>
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