Debian Security Advisory
DSA-519-1 cvs -- several vulnerabilities
- Date Reported:
- 15 Jun 2004
- Affected Packages:
- cvs
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 10499.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0416, CVE-2004-0417, CVE-2004-0418, CVE-2004-0778.
CERT's vulnerabilities, advisories and incident notes: VU#579225. - More information:
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Sebastian Krahmer and Stefan Esser discovered several vulnerabilities in the CVS server, which serves the popular Concurrent Versions System. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
- CAN-2004-0416: double-free() in error_prog_name
- CAN-2004-0417: argument integer overflow
- CAN-2004-0418: out of bound writes in serve_notify()
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.11.1p1debian-9woody7.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.12.9-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your cvs package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody7.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody7.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody7.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody7_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody7_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody7_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody7_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody7_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody7_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody7_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody7_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody7_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody7_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody7_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.