SuSE: 2005-024: cvs Security Update
Summary
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SUSE Security Announcement
Package: cvs
Announcement-ID: SUSE-SA:2005:024
Date: Monday, Apr 18st 2005 13:30 MEST
Affected products: 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
SUSE CORE 9 for x86
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8, 9
UnitedLinux 1.0
School-Server 1
Open-Enterprise-Server 9
Vulnerability Type: remote code execution
Severity (1-10): 6
SUSE default package: No
Cross References: CAN-2005-0753
Content of this advisory:
1) security vulnerability resolved: buffer overflow and memory access
problem in cvs
problem description
2) solution/workaround
3) special instructions and notes
4) package location and checksums
5) pending vulnerabilities, solutions, workarounds:
- IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) cloaking
- PostgreSQL
- Mozilla
- OpenOffice_org
6) standard appendix (further information)
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1) problem description, brief discussion
The Concurrent Versions System (CVS) offers tools which allow developers to share and maintain large software projects.
The current maintainer of CVS reported various problems within CVS
such as a buffer overflow and memory access problems which have
been fixed within the available updates.
The CVE project has assigned the CAN number CAN-2005-0753.
2) solution/workaround
There is no easy workaround except shutting down the CVS server.
3) special instructions and notes
No special actions need to be taken after installing this update.
4) package location and checksums
Download the update package for your distribution and verify its
integrity by the methods listed in section 3) of this announcement.
Then, install the package using the command "rpm -Fhv file.rpm" to apply
the update.
Our maintenance customers are being notified individually. The packages
are being offered for installation from the maintenance web.
x86 Platform:
SUSE Linux 9.3:
8e27dd3b7a9867940830aa9dd8fd95bc
patch rpm(s):
acd6904641df500ca50da8147ee54019
source rpm(s):
6a075a97c2bd30ade965e90e0f9671c4
SUSE Linux 9.2:
7192dce3bb42cd51c98a3510e9e5e73a
patch rpm(s):
ae4b8f9096b50e7f1c3a15e715e4c8e7
source rpm(s):
cebc4e07ac34f6a6f76789d6ce0eba37
SUSE Linux 9.1:
07778aea3050bcf05c96ae680b9d01e4
patch rpm(s):
60591530555521e34d798a0d0365686a
source rpm(s):
bd4b0324b51cee45f247e41f2f6139d4
SUSE Linux 9.0:
795f6e5a6849706bb439366129833841
patch rpm(s):
ec2bb29f912831f9d5e7dd15ec950d9b
source rpm(s):
a3695ffd8f741a9f376e5e3244d412c8
SUSE Linux 8.2:
6fc24ea4712d10855e60d26b9262f48c
patch rpm(s):
7b4e1cae79c33c4965b53159bd888a70
source rpm(s):
401896062510804b79ba75a5e800d9e2
x86-64 Platform:
SUSE Linux 9.3:
db2665d2e95762aa2c376fed929c44f1
patch rpm(s):
8b3070a29bd15c430980937b53928640
source rpm(s):
6a075a97c2bd30ade965e90e0f9671c4
SUSE Linux 9.2:
21518326918a0a7e42176b60544e214e
patch rpm(s):
8bbb9b4bda742cb62836b6a6453aef2c
source rpm(s):
cebc4e07ac34f6a6f76789d6ce0eba37
SUSE Linux 9.1:
7543263ca5374da3a9926cde6c8bd58c
patch rpm(s):
1b245e5669be7b6e082c67d5e094466a
source rpm(s):
8c399e20f6046faa3de70ae0fc133060
SUSE Linux 9.0:
708318fbf0d27efd212c16ac26f63003
patch rpm(s):
7d5f303351ae584f07998847cc476f7c
source rpm(s):
ff6eddc0257dfd8dfa1b97653117d2c7
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5) Pending vulnerabilities in SUSE Distributions and Workarounds:
- IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) cloaking / homograph attacks
Problems with the IDN / punycode handling that allows non-ASCII
domain names were reported for every browser.
- The KDE approach is currently filtering on the top level domain.
- The Mozilla approach is currently to display punycode.
We have released Mozilla Firefox and KDE / konqueror updates for
this problem, the others (mozilla suite and opera) are still pending.
- PostgreSQL problems
Additional PostgreSQL problems were reported:
- A local user could bypass the EXECUTE permission check for
functions by using the CREATE AGGREGATE command. CAN-2005-0244
- Other earlier listed problems are already fixed.
We are still working on updates for this problem.
- new Mozilla security problems
Several new Mozilla browser security problems have been reported.
We are currently addressing these issues.
- OpenOffice_org heap overflow
A heap overflow was found in the MS Word document handing of
OpenOffice_org, allowing a remote attacker to execute code via a
handcrafted .doc file.
We are preparing updates for this issue.
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6) standard appendix: authenticity verification, additional information
- Package authenticity verification:
SUSE update packages are available on many mirror ftp servers all over
the world. While this service is being considered valuable and important
to the free and open source software community, many users wish to be
sure about the origin of the package and its content before installing
the package. There are two verification methods that can be used
independently from each other to prove the authenticity of a downloaded
file or rpm package:
1) md5sums as provided in the (cryptographically signed) announcement.
2) using the internal gpg signatures of the rpm package.
1) execute the command
md5sum
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