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Bug 155029

Summary: CAN-2005-0753 multiple issues in cvs
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: cvsAssignee: Martin Stransky <stransky>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 4.0CC: chrismcc, cpbarton, security-response-team
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: impact=moderate,embargoed=20050418,source=vendorsec,reported=20050322
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Last Closed: 2005-04-25 19:28:11 UTC Type: ---
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Proposed upstream patch from Derek none

Description Josh Bressers 2005-04-15 19:25:25 UTC 
Derek Price alerted vendor-sec about a buffer overflow and an incorrect free.

The incorrect free seems to be part of a dead codepath, I'm not 100% sure of
this though.
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-04-15 19:25:26 UTC 
Created attachment 113250 [details]
Proposed upstream patch from Derek
Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-04-15 19:26:19 UTC 
This issue should also affect RHEL2.1 and RHEL3
Comment 3 Mark J. Cox 2005-04-19 10:35:58 UTC 
Removing embargo
Comment 4 Josh Bressers 2005-04-20 20:37:05 UTC 
*** Bug 155476 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Josh Bressers 2005-04-25 19:28:12 UTC 
An advisory 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-2005-387.html