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CVS malformed entry lines flaw
Information
Severity
Severity
Critical
Family
Family
General
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
10.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
18 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
The remote CVS server, according to its version number, might allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the remote system because of a flaw relating to malformed Entry lines which lead to a missing NULL terminator.
Insight
Insight
Among the issues deemed likely to be exploitable were: - a double-free relating to the error_prog_name string (CVE-2004-0416) - an argument integer overflow (CVE-2004-0417) - out-of-bounds writes in serv_notify (CVE-2004-0418)
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to CVS 1.12.9 or 1.11.17.