gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200312-04.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200312-04">
<title>CVS: malformed module request vulnerability</title>
<synopsis>
A bug in cvs could allow attempts to create files and directories outside a
repository.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">CVS</product>
<announced>2003-12-08</announced>
<revised count="01">2003-12-08</revised>
<bug>35371</bug>
<access>unknown</access>
<affected>
<package name="dev-util/cvs" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">1.11.10</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="le">1.11.9</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
CVS, which stands for Concurrent Versions System, is a client/server
application which tracks changes to sets of files. It allows multiple users
to work concurrently on files, and then merge their changes back into the
main tree (which can be on a remote system). It also allows branching, or
maintaining separate versions for files.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
Quote from ccvs.cvshome.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsID=84:
"Stable CVS 1.11.10 has been released. Stable releases contain only bug
fixes from previous versions of CVS. This release fixes a security issue
with no known exploits that could cause previous versions of CVS to attempt
to create files and directories in the filesystem root. This release also
fixes several issues relevant to case insensitive filesystems and some other
bugs. We recommend this upgrade for all CVS clients and servers!"
</p>
</description>
<impact type="minimal">
<p>
Attempts to create files and directories outside the repository may be
possible.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All Gentoo Linux machines with cvs installed should be updated to use
dev-util/cvs-1.11.10 or higher:
</p>
<code>
# emerge sync
# emerge -pv '&gt;=dev-util/cvs-1.11.10'
# emerge '&gt;=dev-util/cvs-1.11.10'
# emerge clean</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0977">CAN-2003-0977</uri>
</references>
</glsa>