Debian Security Advisory
DSA-486-1 cvs -- several vulnerabilities
- Date Reported:
- 16 Apr 2004
- Affected Packages:
- cvs
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 10138, BugTraq ID 10140.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0180, CVE-2004-0405. - More information:
-
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered and fixed in CVS:
- CAN-2004-0180
Sebastian Krahmer discovered a vulnerability whereby a malicious CVS pserver could create arbitrary files on the client system during an update or checkout operation, by supplying absolute pathnames in RCS diffs.
- CAN-2004-0405
Derek Robert Price discovered a vulnerability whereby a CVS pserver could be abused by a malicious client to view the contents of certain files outside of the CVS root directory using relative pathnames containing "../".
For the current stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 1.11.1p1debian-9woody2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you update your cvs package.
- CAN-2004-0180
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody2.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-9woody2.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.