New cvs packages has been released for Debian GNU/Linux

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 486-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman
April 16th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/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:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody2.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 693 28b69f2fb8220898ca67c01315100f34
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody2.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 52099 91792f8108528075bcf13b065875b4db
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 2621658 500965ab9702b31605f8c58aa21a6205

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody2_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1178632 ad23bcdf83e3ce5253e0f1d7741600b8

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody2_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1105142 143e7fd0c40a86cf34ec5a6b174fcd18

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody2_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1094930 20f380681501e6a2da820404e0198d05

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody2_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1270908 c84aeccd424b890744f8aade97965b3f

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody2_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1147238 600d2778f0e8ab62f8194bc3fed09b23

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody2_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1065546 7199eddc8e0cb9e2e6a62e041d7257dd

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody2_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1129628 c193b5312150906f08e5f0f9f262a053

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody2_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1130946 d5e64bbf877d7875777b9a144e00f909

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody2_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1116088 fca673b8d53f571a341502c569225609

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody2_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1096904 7c22f2848da99ac592490ea23e71b8e3

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.11.1p1debian-9woody2_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1107142 e2d10b43bcf8619e114365c389878936

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