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RHEL 6 : cvs (RHSA-2010:0918)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 50840

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An updated cvs package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Concurrent Version System (CVS) is a version control system that can record the history of your files.

An array index error, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way CVS applied certain delta fragment changes from input files in the RCS (Revision Control System file) format. If an attacker in control of a CVS repository stored a specially crafted RCS file in that repository, and then tricked a remote victim into checking out (updating their CVS repository tree) a revision containing that file, it could lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the CVS server process on the system hosting the CVS repository.
(CVE-2010-3846)

Red Hat would like to thank Ralph Loader for reporting this issue.

All users of cvs are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected cvs and / or cvs-debuginfo packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-3846

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0918

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 50840

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2010-0918.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/30/2010

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cvs-debuginfo, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cvs

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/29/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/5/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3846

BID: 44528

RHSA: 2010:0918