RPM HeaderLoad Function Denial of Service and Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2012-0061 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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