35371 – cvs 1.11.10 fixes security problem

Bug 35371 - cvs 1.11.10 fixes security problem

Summary: cvs 1.11.10 fixes security problem

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	GLSA Errors (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High minor (vote)
Assignee:	Rajiv Aaron Manglani (RETIRED)

URL:	http://ccvs.cvshome.org/servlets/News...
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Keywords:	SECURITY

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Reported:	2003-12-08 12:24 UTC by Rajiv Aaron Manglani (RETIRED)
Modified:	2003-12-10 23:33 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Rajiv Aaron Manglani (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-12-08 12:24:00 UTC

already in portage, stable on all arch. glsa needs to be sent.


2003-12-04: Stable CVS Version 1.11.10 Released! (security update) 

Contributed by: Derek Price 

Stable CVS 1.11.10 has been released. Stable releases contain only bug fixes from previous versions of CVS. This release fixes a security issue with no known exploits that could cause previous versions of CVS to attempt to create files and directories in the filesystem root. This release also fixes several issues relevant to case insensitive filesystems and some other bugs. We recommend this upgrade for all CVS clients and servers!

Comment 1 Rainer Größlinger (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-12-08 12:46:59 UTC

Hi,

yes, I committed it to cvs (~ on all archs) on Saturday evening (GMT) and then marked it stable on all archs about 24h later.

I am sorry I forgot to open a GLSA-request.

Comment 2 Rajiv Aaron Manglani (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-12-10 23:33:28 UTC

glsa-200312-04 <http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200312-04.xml> sent as:

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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200312-04
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------

GLSA:        200312-04
package:     dev-util/cvs
summary:     Fix for malformed module request vulnerability in cvs
severity:    minimal
Gentoo bug:  35371
date:        2003-12-08
CVE:         CAN-2003-0977
exploit:     unknown
affected:    <=1.11.9
fixed:       >=1.11.10


DESCRIPTION:

Quote from <http://ccvs.cvshome.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsID=84>:

   Stable CVS 1.11.10 has been released. Stable releases contain only
   bug fixes from previous versions of CVS. This release fixes a
   security issue with no known exploits that could cause previous
   versions of CVS to attempt to create files and directories in the
   filesystem root. This release also fixes several issues relevant to
   case insensitive filesystems and some other bugs. We recommend this
   upgrade for all CVS clients and servers!"


SOLUTION:

All Gentoo Linux machines with cvs installed should be updated to use
cvs-1.11.10 or higher.

        emerge sync
        emerge -pv '>=dev-util/cvs-1.11.10'
        emerge '>=dev-util/cvs-1.11.10'
        emerge clean


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