CVE-2005-4268: GNU Cpio

Low severity, CVSS 3.7. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in cpio 2.6-8.FC4 on 64-bit platforms, when creating a cpio archive, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a file whose size is represented by more than 8 digits.

Affected products

• GNU Cpio: version 2.6-8 only

Published 2005-12-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.