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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2002.115 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 117-1
New CVS packages fix potential security problems
6 March 2002
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: cvs
Vendor: Debian
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
Linux
UNIX
Platform: Alpha
ARM
i386
Motorola 680x0
PowerPC
SPARC
Impact: Denial of Service
Access Required: Remote
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 117-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
March 5th, 2002
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Package : cvs
Vulnerability : improper variable initialization
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
Kim Nielsen recently found an internal problem with the CVS server and
reported it to the vuln-dev mailing list. The problem is triggered by
an improperly initialized global variable. A user exploiting this can
crash the CVS server, which may be accessed through the pserver
service and running under a remote user id. It is not yet clear if
the remote account can be exposed, through.
This problem has been fixed in version 1.10.7-9 for the stable Debian
distribution and in version newer than 1.11.1p1debian-3 for the
testing and unstable distribution of Debian (not yet uploaded,
though).
We recommend that you upgrade your CVS package.
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/cvs_1.10.7-9.dsc
MD5 checksum: f90a1612f3680766c535d4e8d6309ee2
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/cvs_1.10.7-9.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: 08c24ca9e9bc9f6490bb38939a8c189e
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/cvs_1.10.7.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: 614e72d2a6dff40f3f5bec2e9be270f2
Architecture independent components:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-all/cvs-doc_1.10.7-9_all.deb
MD5 checksum: e116fdd2fa30bf75b6e511fe6b6e6290
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/cvs_1.10.7-9_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: a1de65bd246e17d2deb993647bfea4b8
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/cvs_1.10.7-9_arm.deb
MD5 checksum: 63ae9530b2260ccd89ee8d5ec5fcd9b9
Intel ia32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/cvs_1.10.7-9_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: af8331fa78feee3029ebdde3e743adf5
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/cvs_1.10.7-9_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: 3b64d8696495ce8be5972c34277070a8
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/cvs_1.10.7-9_powerpc.deb
MD5 checksum: 742a220829c357c5095bb40ce07f6f28
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/cvs_1.10.7-9_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: d3f832da7a1a7c228292dd32d6059075
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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