From: Harry Sintonen via Fulldisclosure <fulldisclosure () seclists org>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2024 00:45:39 +0200 (EET)
On Mon, 8 Jan 2024, Georgi Guninski wrote:
When extracting archives cpio (at least version 2.13) preserves
the setuid flag, which might lead to privilege escalation.
So does for example tar. The same rules that apply to tar also apply to
cpio:
"Extract from an untrusted archive only into an otherwise-empty directory.
This directory and its parent should be accessible only to trusted users."
One example is r00t extracts to /tmp/ and scidiot runs /tmp/micq/backd00r
without further interaction from root.
We believe this is vulnerability, since directory traversal in cpio
is considered vulnerability.
This is a user error, not a vulnerability in cpio.
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