CVE-2012-6088

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The rpmpkgRead function in lib/package.c in RPM 4.10.x before 4.10.2 does not return an error code in certain situations involving an "unparseable signature," which allows remote attackers to bypass RPM signature checks via a crafted package.

Find out more about CVE-2012-6088 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of rpm as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 as they did not include the upstream commit e8bc3ff5d780f4ee6656c24464402723e5fb04f4 that introduced this issue.

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