Mageia alert MGASA-2016-0063 (cpio)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2016-0063: Updated cpio packages fix CVE-2016-2037 
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Wed, 17 Feb 2016 20:06:31 +0100
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MGASA-2016-0063 - Updated cpio packages fix CVE-2016-2037

Publication date: 17 Feb 2016
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0063.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 5
CVE: CVE-2016-2037

Description:
Updated cpio package fixes security vulnerability:

An out-of-bounds write in cpio was found in the parsing of cpio files, in the
process_copy_in() function in src/copyin.c (CVE-2016-2037).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17538
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/22/4
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2037

SRPMS:
- 5/core/cpio-2.11-11.1.mga5