Debian Security Advisory DSA 505-1 (cvs) - Heap overflow vulnerability in CVS serve
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 40 |
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Debian DSA-505-1 : cvs - heap overflow | 29 Sep 200400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | SuSE-SA:2004:013: cvs | 25 Jul 200400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Fedora Core 2 : cvs-1.11.15-6 (2004-131) | 23 Jul 200400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | RHEL 2.1 / 3 : cvs (RHSA-2004:190) | 6 Jul 200400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | GLSA-200405-12 : CVS heap overflow vulnerability | 30 Aug 200400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | CVS pserver Line Entry Handling Overflow | 19 May 200400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | FreeBSD : SA-04:10.cvs | 6 Jul 200400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Fedora Core 1 : cvs-1.11.15-5 (2004-126) | 23 Jul 200400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Slackware 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : cvs (SSA:2004-140-01) | 13 Jul 200500:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cvs (MDKSA-2004:048) | 31 Jul 200400:00 | – | nessus |
Source | Link |
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securityfocus | www.securityfocus.com/bid/10384 |
secure1 | www.secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc.
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.53196");
script_version("2023-07-19T05:05:15+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-19 05:05:15 +0000 (Wed, 19 Jul 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2008-01-17 22:45:44 +0100 (Thu, 17 Jan 2008)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2004-0396");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.5");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_name("Debian Security Advisory DSA 505-1 (cvs)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2008 E-Soft Inc.");
script_family("Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/debian_linux", "ssh/login/packages", re:"ssh/login/release=DEB3\.0");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20505-1");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10384");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Stefan Esser discovered a heap overflow in the CVS server, which
serves the popular Concurrent Versions System. Malformed Entry
Lines in combination with Is-modified and Unchanged can be used to
overflow malloc()ed memory. This was proven to be exploitable.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.11.1p1debian-9woody4.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.12.5-6.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"We recommend that you upgrade your cvs package immediately.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update to cvs
announced via advisory DSA 505-1.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-deb.inc");
res = "";
report = "";
if((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"cvs", ver:"1.11.1p1debian-9woody4", rls:"DEB3.0")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
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