RHSA-2022:1991 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: cpio security update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · May 10, 2022

Updated · February 24, 2026

Topic

An update for cpio is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The cpio packages provide the GNU cpio utility for creating and extracting archives, or copying files from one place to another.

Security Fix(es):

  • cpio: integer overflow in ds_fgetstr() in dstring.c can lead to an out-of-bounds write via a crafted pattern file (CVE-2021-38185)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2022:1991 — Red Hat Security Advisory: cpio security update | PulseLinux