The cpio packages provide the GNU cpio utility for creating and extracting archives, or copying files from one place to another. Security Fix: * cpio: improper input validation when writing tar header fields leads to unexpect tar generation For more details about the security issue, including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page listed in the References section. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.