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Debian DSA-486-1 : cvs - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 15323

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered and fixed in CVS :

 - CAN-2004-0180 Sebastian Krahmer discovered a vulnerability whereby a malicious CVS pserver could create arbitrary files on the client system during an update or checkout operation, by supplying absolute pathnames in RCS diffs.

 - CAN-2004-0405

 Derek Robert Price discovered a vulnerability whereby a CVS pserver could be abused by a malicious client to view the contents of certain files outside of the CVS root directory using relative pathnames containing '../'.

Solution

For the current stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 1.11.1p1debian-9woody2.

We recommend that you update your cvs package.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-486

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 15323

File Name: debian_DSA-486.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cvs

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/16/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0180, CVE-2004-0405

BID: 10138, 10140

DSA: 486