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CVE-2021-38185

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2021-08-08 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

GNU cpio through 2.13 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted pattern file, because of a dstring.c ds_fgetstr integer overflow that triggers an out-of-bounds heap write. NOTE: it is unclear whether there are common cases where the pattern file, associated with the -E option, is untrusted data.

Affected Platforms

Gnu Cpio

Weakness Type

CWE-190, CWE-190

References