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CVE-2005-4268

13
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-4268 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in GNU cpio versions 2.6-8.FC4 on 64-bit platforms. This flaw allows local attackers to trigger a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code by creating a cpio archive with a file whose size is represented by more than eight digits. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 3.7, indicating low attack complexity and requiring local access, with potential impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.6-8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:cpio:2.6-8:*:fedora_core_4_64bit:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.7LOW

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.54%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
42.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0054 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 747 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: cpio-0:2.5-6.RHEL3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: cpio-0:2.5-13.RHEL4
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-4268Low

cpio large filesize buffer overflow

Nov 7, 2005

References

ftp.freebsd.org / pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:03.cpio.asc
frontal1.mandriva.com / security/advisories
lists.suse.com / archive/suse-security-announce/2006-May/0004.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/18251
secunia.com / advisories/18278
secunia.com / advisories/18280
secunia.com / advisories/18395
secunia.com / advisories/20117
secunia.com / advisories/25098
secunia.com / advisories/25161
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/23855
issues.rpath.com / browse/RPL-1338
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10450
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6860
usn.ubuntu.com / 234-1
osvdb.org / 22194
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2007-0245.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2010-0145.html
securityfocus.com / bid/16057