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Bug 122384

Summary:	CAN-2004-0396 CVS pserver heap overflow via Entry/Is-modified/Unchanged
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Component:	cvs	Assignee:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	3.0	CC:	mjc
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OS:	Linux
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Description Nalin Dahyabhai 2004-05-03 22:02:39 UTC

Stefan Esser of eMatters discovered a flaw in the CVS pserver which
allows malicious clients to execute arbitrary code with the privileges
of the CVS server.

CAN-2004-0396 Affects: 2.1AS 2.1ES 2.1WS 2.1AW 3AS 3ES 3WS 3DT

Embargoed; not sure of public date yet.

Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2004-05-19 06:41:40 UTC

public, removing embargo

Comment 2 Mark J. Cox 2004-05-19 06:45:47 UTC

An errata has been issued which should help the problem 
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being 
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, 
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report 
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-190.html