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Fedora Legacy Update Advisory
Synopsis: Updated cvs resolves security vulnerability 1. Topic: Updated cvs packages that fix remote denial of service vulnerabilities are now available. 2. Relevent releases/architectures:
Red Hat Linux 7.3 - i386 3. Problem description: Sebastian Krahmer discovered a flaw in CVS clients where rcs diff files can create files with absolute pathnames An attacker could create a fake malicious CVS server that would cause arbitrary files to be created or overwritten when a victim connects to it. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org/) has assigned the name CAN-2004-0180 to this issue. (Note: Red Hat Linux 9 was already patched for this issue) Derek 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 "../". The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org/) has assigned the name CAN-2004-0405 to this issue. (Note: Red Hat Linux 9 was already patched for this issue) Stefan Esser discovered a flaw in cvs where malformed "Entry" lines could cause a heap overflow. An attacker who has access to a CVS server could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code under the UID which the CVS server is executing. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org/) has assigned the name CAN-2004-0396 to this issue. Users of CVS are advised to upgrade to these erratum packages, which contain a patch correcting this issue. Fedora Legacy would like to thank David M. Kaplan for bringing these issues to our attention. 4. Solution: Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. To update all RPMs for your particular architecture, run: rpm -Fvh [filenames] where [filenames] is a list of the RPMs you wish to upgrade. Only those RPMs which are currently installed will be updated. Those RPMs which are not installed but included in the list will not be updated. Note that you can also use wildcards (*.rpm) if your current directory only contains the desired RPMs. Please note that this update is also available via yum and apt. Many people find this an easier way to apply updates. To use yum issue: yum update or to use apt: apt-get update; apt-get upgrade This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system. This assumes that you have yum or apt-get configured for obtaining Fedora Legacy content. Please visit http://www.fedoralegacy.org/docs for directions on how to configure yum and apt-get. 5. Bug IDs fixed: http://bugzilla.fedora.us - 1620 - Security problems found with CVS that need to be fixed. 6. RPMs required: Red Hat Linux 7.3:
SRPM:
i386: Red Hat Linux 9:
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i386: 7. Verification: SHA1 sum Package Name
58069558fc24abfa50f2ac94327c8d06f234bbd9
7.3/updates/SRPMS/cvs-1.11.1p1-14.legacy.3.src.rpm
84027d8b84f72c675aeb15816034e86450534b62
9/updates/SRPMS/cvs-1.11.2-23.legacy.src.rpm These packages are GPG signed by Fedora Legacy for security. Our key is available from http://www.fedoralegacy org/about/security.php You can verify each package with the following command: rpm --checksig -v <filename> If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with, examine only the sha1sum with the following command: sha1sum <filename> 8. References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0180 9. Contact: The Fedora Legacy security contact is <secnotice@fedoralegacy.org>. More project details at http://www.fedoralegacy.org  
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