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GLSA-200406-06 : CVS: additional DoS and arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities

critical Nessus Plugin ID 14517

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200406-06 (CVS: additional DoS and arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities)

 A team audit of the CVS source code performed by Stefan Esser and Sebastian Krahmer resulted in the discovery of several remotely exploitable vulnerabilities including:
 no-null-termination of 'Entry' lines error_prog_name 'double-free()' Argument integer overflow serve_notify() out of bounds writes Impact :

 An attacker could use these vulnerabilities to cause a Denial of Service or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running cvs.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time. All users are advised to upgrade to the latest available version of CVS.

Solution

All CVS users should upgrade to the latest stable version:
 # emerge sync # emerge -pv '>=dev-util/cvs-1.11.17' # emerge '>=dev-util/cvs-1.11.17'

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1215cc0e

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200406-06

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 14517

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200406-06.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Published: 8/30/2004

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:cvs, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/10/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/9/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0414, CVE-2004-0416, CVE-2004-0417, CVE-2004-0418

CWE: 119

GLSA: 200406-06