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HistoryMay 04, 2005 - 12:00 a.m.

cvs vulnerability

2005-05-0400:00:00
ubuntu.com
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7.5 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

6.8 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.848 High

EPSS

Percentile

98.5%

Releases

  • Ubuntu 5.04
  • Ubuntu 4.10

Details

Alen Zukich discovered a buffer overflow in the processing of version
and author information in the CVS client. By tricking an user to
connect to a malicious CVS server, an attacker could exploit this to
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the connecting user.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Ubuntu5.04noarchcvs< *UNKNOWN
Ubuntu4.10noarchcvs< *UNKNOWN

7.5 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

6.8 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.848 High

EPSS

Percentile

98.5%