Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the RPM package manager. CVE-2013-6435 Florian Weimer discovered a race condition in package signature validation. CVE-2014-8118 Florian Weimer discovered an integer overflow in parsing CPIO headers which might result in the execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 4.10.0-5+deb7u2. For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 4.11.3-1.1. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 4.11.3-1.1. We recommend that you upgrade your rpm packages.

The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a command-line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating computer software packages.

rpm on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3129.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25