gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201709-17.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201709-17">
  <title>CVS: Command injection</title>
  <synopsis>A command injection vulnerability in CVS may allow remote attackers
    to execute arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">cvs</product>
  <announced>2017-09-24</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-09-24</revised>
  <bug>627498</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-vcs/cvs" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.12.12-r12</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.12.12-r12</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>CVS (Concurrent Versions System) is an open-source network-transparent
      version control system. It contains both a client utility and a server.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>It was discovered that when CVS is configured to use SSH for remote
      repositories it allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code through
      a repository URL with a specially crafted hostname.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker, by enticing a user to clone a specially crafted
      repository, could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of
      the process.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All CVS users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-vcs/cvs-1.12.12-r12"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-12836">
      CVE-2017-12836
    </uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-09-17T20:16:04Z">chrisadr</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-09-24T15:44:04Z">chrisadr</metadata>
</glsa>