DSA-742-1 cvs -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-742-1 cvs -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

07 Jul 2005

Affected Packages:

cvs

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 305254.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0753.

More information:

Derek Price, the current maintainer of CVS, discovered a buffer overflow in the CVS server, that serves the popular Concurrent Versions System, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.11.1p1debian-12.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.12.9-13.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.12.9-13.

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-12.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-12.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-12_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-12_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-12_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-12_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-12_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-12_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-12_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-12_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-12_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-12_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-12_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.