CVE-2010-0624: GNU Cpio

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the rmt_read__ function in lib/rtapelib.c in the rmt client functionality in GNU tar before 1.23 and GNU cpio before 2.11 allows remote rmt servers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code by sending more data than was requested, related to archive filenames that contain a : (colon) character.

Affected products

• GNU Cpio: up to and including 2.10; version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only; version 1.2 only; version 1.3 only; version 2.4-2 only; …
• GNU Tar: up to and including 1.22; version 1.13 only; version 1.13.5 only; version 1.13.11 only; version 1.13.14 only; version 1.13.16 only; …

Published 2010-03-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.