metadata/glsa/glsa-200504-16.xml

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<glsa id="200504-16">
  <title>CVS: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Several serious vulnerabilities have been found in CVS, which may allow an
    attacker to remotely compromise a CVS server or cause a DoS.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">CVS</product>
  <announced>April 18, 2005</announced>
  <revised>April 22, 2005: 03</revised>
  <bug>86476</bug>
  <bug>89579</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-util/cvs" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.11.20</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.11.20</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    CVS (Concurrent Versions System) is an open-source network-transparent
    version control system. It contains both a client utility and a server.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Alen Zukich has discovered several serious security issues in CVS,
    including at least one buffer overflow (CAN-2005-0753), memory leaks
    and a NULL pointer dereferencing error. Furthermore when launching
    trigger scripts CVS includes a user controlled directory.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to cause a Denial of
    Service or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the CVS
    pserver or the authenticated user (depending on the connection method
    used).
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All CVS users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=dev-util/cvs-1.11.20&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0753">CAN-2005-0753</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:45:36 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:37:28 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>