Debian Security Advisory
DSA-233-1 cvs -- doubly freed memory
- Date Reported:
- 21 Jan 2003
- Affected Packages:
- cvs
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0015.
CERT's vulnerabilities, advisories and incident notes: CA-2003-02, VU#650937. - More information:
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Stefan Esser discovered a problem in cvs, a concurrent versions system, which is used for many Free Software projects. The current version contains a flaw that can be used by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the CVS server under the user id the CVS server runs as. Anonymous read-only access is sufficient to exploit this problem.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.11.1p1debian-8.1.
For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed in version 1.10.7-9.2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your cvs package immediately.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.10.7-9.2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.10.7-9.2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.10.7.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.10.7-9.2.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs-doc_1.10.7-9.2_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.10.7-9.2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.10.7-9.2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.10.7-9.2_i386.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.10.7-9.2_m68k.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.10.7-9.2_powerpc.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.10.7-9.2_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-8.1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-8.1.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-8.1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-8.1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-8.1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-8.1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-8.1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-8.1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-8.1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-8.1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-8.1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-8.1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-8.1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-8.1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.