Revision Date: | 2004-04-17 | Version: | 503 |
Title: | RHSA-2004:153: cvs security update (Moderate) |
Description: | CVS is a version control system frequently used to manage source code repositories.
Sebastian Krahmer discovered a flaw in CVS clients where rcs diff files can create files with absolute pathnames. An attacker could create a fake malicious CVS server that would cause arbitrary files to be created or overwritten when a victim connects to it. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2004-0180 to this issue.
Derek 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 "../". The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2004-0405 to this issue.
Users of CVS are advised to upgrade to these erratum packages, which contain a patch correcting this issue.
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Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
Status: | | Reference(s): | CVE-2004-0180 CVE-2004-0405 RHSA-2004:153-02
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Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
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Definition Synopsis |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 is installed AND cvs is earlier than 0:1.11.2-18
AND cvs is signed with Red Hat master key
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