Debian Security Advisory

DSA-519-1 cvs -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

15 Jun 2004

Affected Packages:

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:

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
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.