Medium: cvs

Issue Overview:

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the CVS client handled responses from HTTP proxies. A malicious HTTP proxy could use this flaw to cause the CVS client to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the CVS client. (CVE-2012-0804)

Affected Packages:

cvs

Issue Correction:
Run yum update cvs to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    cvs-debuginfo-1.11.23-11.6.amzn1.i686  
    cvs-1.11.23-11.6.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    cvs-1.11.23-11.6.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    cvs-1.11.23-11.6.amzn1.x86_64  
    cvs-debuginfo-1.11.23-11.6.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2012-0804

Mitre: CVE-2012-0804