symlink attack

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    CVE-2010-4226: Symlink Attacks in cpio Used by RPM Payloads

    cpio’s handling of symbolic links in certain historical builds opened a deceptively simple attack vector: crafted RPM payloads that leverage symlinks to overwrite arbitrary files on extraction, a flaw tracked as CVE-2010-4226 and documented in multiple vulnerability databases and vendor...
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