USN-117-1: cvs vulnerability

4 May 2005

cvs vulnerability

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Details

Alen Zukich discovered a buffer overflow in the processing of version
and author information in the CVS client. By tricking an user to
connect to a malicious CVS server, an attacker could exploit this to
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the connecting user.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 5.04
  • cvs -
Ubuntu 4.10
  • cvs -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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