Mandrake security alert: Updated cvs packages fix remotely exploitable vulnerability

Posted by dave on Apr 14, 2004 9:29 AM EDT
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Sebastian Krahmer from the SUSE security team discovered a remotely exploitable vulnerability in the CVS client. When doing a cvs checkout or update over a network, the client accepts absolute pathnames in the RCS diff files. A maliciously configured server could then create any file with content on the local user's disk. This problem affects all versions of CVS prior to 1.11.15 which has fixed the problem.

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Mandrakelinux Security Update Advisory _______________________________________________________________________

Package name: cvs Advisory ID: MDKSA-2004:028 Date: April 14th, 2004

Affected versions: 10.0, 9.1, 9.2, Corporate Server 2.1 ______________________________________________________________________

Problem Description:

Sebastian Krahmer from the SUSE security team discovered a remotely exploitable vulnerability in the CVS client. When doing a cvs checkout or update over a network, the client accepts absolute pathnames in the RCS diff files. A maliciously configured server could then create any file with content on the local user's disk. This problem affects all versions of CVS prior to 1.11.15 which has fixed the problem. The updated packages provide 1.11.14 with the pertinent fix for the problem. _______________________________________________________________________

References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0180 ______________________________________________________________________

Updated Packages: Mandrakelinux 10.0: 8423bbb8df0ec908cd3cf98c6f1d3265 10.0/RPMS/cvs-1.11.14-0.1.100mdk.i586.rpm 615f79d903b64b68fc6db8d93efd4da7 10.0/SRPMS/cvs-1.11.14-0.1.100mdk.src.rpm

Corporate Server 2.1: d658ef61a9bbc81fd2ceda58da96c9ef corporate/2.1/RPMS/cvs-1.11.14-0.1.C21mdk.i586.rpm 4690e5a453680781c865506997892f9c corporate/2.1/SRPMS/cvs-1.11.14-0.1.C21mdk.src.rpm

Corporate Server 2.1/x86_64: fa293671fbb99b18e75f4889ab570ffd x86_64/corporate/2.1/RPMS/cvs-1.11.14-0.1.C21mdk.x86_64.rpm 4690e5a453680781c865506997892f9c x86_64/corporate/2.1/SRPMS/cvs-1.11.14-0.1.C21mdk.src.rpm

Mandrakelinux 9.1: 23c11c0cfc2467840bad260fbcf17368 9.1/RPMS/cvs-1.11.14-0.1.91mdk.i586.rpm c6cdbd0d495c17c969ca762100daaaa0 9.1/SRPMS/cvs-1.11.14-0.1.91mdk.src.rpm

Mandrakelinux 9.1/PPC: 9c9fcaaec353fa9e03772b20e6557faa ppc/9.1/RPMS/cvs-1.11.14-0.1.91mdk.ppc.rpm c6cdbd0d495c17c969ca762100daaaa0 ppc/9.1/SRPMS/cvs-1.11.14-0.1.91mdk.src.rpm

Mandrakelinux 9.2: 3d83f5e80eaec6e01c4eebf7fabf91dc 9.2/RPMS/cvs-1.11.14-0.1.92mdk.i586.rpm 5b9e2317b68fc58fa13dc19e0f9c8231 9.2/SRPMS/cvs-1.11.14-0.1.92mdk.src.rpm

Mandrakelinux 9.2/AMD64: 7d0abb033e07d5de2796a85744ee8ba1 amd64/9.2/RPMS/cvs-1.11.14-0.1.92mdk.amd64.rpm 5b9e2317b68fc58fa13dc19e0f9c8231 amd64/9.2/SRPMS/cvs-1.11.14-0.1.92mdk.src.rpm _______________________________________________________________________

To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

A list of FTP mirrors can be obtained from:

http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/ftp.php

All packages are signed by Mandrakesoft for security. You can obtain the GPG public key of the Mandrakelinux Security Team by executing:

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver http://www.mandrakesecure.net 0x22458A98

Please be aware that sometimes it takes the mirrors a few hours to update.

You can view other update advisories for Mandrakelinux at:

http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/

Mandrakesoft has several security-related mailing list services that anyone can subscribe to. Information on these lists can be obtained by visiting:

http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/mlist.php

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_linux-mandrake.com

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