Security Advisory SA11641 - CVS Entry Line Heap Overflow Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA11641

CVS Entry Line Heap Overflow Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA11641

Release Date

2004-05-19

Last Update

2004-05-20

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Criticality level

Highly critical

Impact

System access

Where

From remote

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Solution Status

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Software:

Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2004-0396 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

Stefan Esser has reported a vulnerability in CVS, allowing malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the handling of modified or unchanged flag insertion into CVS entry lines, which can be exploited to cause a heap overflow.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability has been reported in the following versions:
* Feature version 1.12.7 and prior.
* Stable version 1.11.15 and prior.

Solution
The vulnerability has been fixed in versions 1.12.8 and 1.11.16.
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Provided and/or discovered by
Stefan Esser, e-matters.

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Original Advisory
http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/072004.html

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