cvs security updates are available for Ubuntu Linux 4.10 and 5.04

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-117-1 May 04, 2005
cvs vulnerability
CAN-2005-0753
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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)
Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog)

The following packages are affected:

cvs

The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 1:1.12.9-1ubuntu0.1 (for Ubuntu 4.10), or 1:1.12.9-9ubuntu0.1 (for Ubuntu 5.04). In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.



Details follow:

Alen Zukich discovered a buffer overflow in the processing of version and author information in the CVS client. By tricking an user to connect to a malicious CVS server, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the connecting user.

Source archives:

http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.12.9-1ubuntu0.1.diff.gz
Size/MD5: 52777 441d96f987774bd02c648da67ddb04d4
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.12.9-1ubuntu0.1.dsc
Size/MD5: 711 f7c972762e018f6f77ebe19ce7987679
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.12.9.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5: 2694327 7fd048889a98f57a002e7e96171b2f2b

amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon)

http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.12.9-1ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5: 1450326 8996c2dc17120ab8fdbb2f045d663fde

i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD)

http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.12.9-1ubuntu0.1_i386.deb
Size/MD5: 1424536 a18a818dd14a33afd02de968f09dc293

powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5)

http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.12.9-1ubuntu0.1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5: 1448922 d8af409cf618c30357f41e820aa6c975

Source archives:

http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.12.9-9ubuntu0.1.diff.gz
Size/MD5: 62826 04bc7d53ffddc95c7882c93f59cdf0f7
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.12.9-9ubuntu0.1.dsc
Size/MD5: 711 2a5a420117a60e85b72a607c17caddb9
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.12.9.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5: 2694327 7fd048889a98f57a002e7e96171b2f2b

amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon)

http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.12.9-9ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5: 1460530 b62dac665da6a540c531dd24cf691dc6

i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD)

http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.12.9-9ubuntu0.1_i386.deb
Size/MD5: 1434220 0c62a78508abd2955877a36c45bcd193

powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5)

http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cvs/cvs_1.12.9-9ubuntu0.1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5: 1459066 b7ed928cf9abd23aaad163eb6431e4f9