Debian Security Advisory
DSA-505-1 cvs -- heap overflow
- Date Reported:
- 19 May 2004
- Affected Packages:
- cvs
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 10384.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0396. - More information:
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Stefan Esser discovered a heap overflow in the CVS server, which serves the popular Concurrent Versions System. Malformed "Entry" Lines in combination with Is-modified and Unchanged can be used to overflow malloc()ed memory. This was proven to be exploitable.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.11.1p1debian-9woody4.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.12.5-6.
We recommend that you upgrade your cvs package immediately.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody4.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody4.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-9woody4.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody4_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody4_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody4_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody4_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody4_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody4_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody4_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody4_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody4_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody4_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody4_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.