Debian Security Advisory DSA 486-1                     security@debian.org 
Debian -- Security Information                              Matt Zimmerman
April 16th, 2004                          Debian -- Debian security FAQ 
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Package        : cvs
Vulnerability  : several
Problem-Type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Ids        : CAN-2004-0180 CAN-2004-0405

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered and fixed in CVS:

 CAN-2004-0180 - Sebastian Krahmer discovered a vulnerability whereby
 a malicious CVS pserver could create arbitary files on the client
 system during an update or checkout operation, by supplying absolute
 pathnames in RCS diffs.

 CAN-2004-0405 - Derek Robert 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 "../".

For the current stable distribution (woody) these problems have been
fixed in version 1.11.1p1debian-9woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you update your cvs package.

Upgrade Instructions
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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 3.0 alias woody
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  Source archives:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:      693 28b69f2fb8220898ca67c01315100f34
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    52099 91792f8108528075bcf13b065875b4db
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:  2621658 500965ab9702b31605f8c58aa21a6205

  Alpha architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1178632 ad23bcdf83e3ce5253e0f1d7741600b8

  ARM architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1105142 143e7fd0c40a86cf34ec5a6b174fcd18

  Intel IA-32 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1094930 20f380681501e6a2da820404e0198d05

  Intel IA-64 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1270908 c84aeccd424b890744f8aade97965b3f

  HP Precision architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1147238 600d2778f0e8ab62f8194bc3fed09b23

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1065546 7199eddc8e0cb9e2e6a62e041d7257dd

  Big endian MIPS architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1129628 c193b5312150906f08e5f0f9f262a053

  Little endian MIPS architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1130946 d5e64bbf877d7875777b9a144e00f909

  PowerPC architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1116088 fca673b8d53f571a341502c569225609

  IBM S/390 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1096904 7c22f2848da99ac592490ea23e71b8e3

  Sun Sparc architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:  1107142 e2d10b43bcf8619e114365c389878936

  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next revision.

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