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Debian Security Advisory DSA 117-1                     security@debian.org

http://www.debian.org/security/                             Martin Schulze

March 5th, 2002  

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Package        : cvs

Vulnerability  : improper variable initialization

Problem-Type   : remote

Debian-specific: no



Kim Nielsen recently found an internal problem with the CVS server and

reported it to the vuln-dev mailing list.  The problem is triggered by

an improperly initialized global variable.  A user exploiting this can

crash the CVS server, which may be accessed through the pserver

service and running under a remote user id.  It is not yet clear if

the remote account can be exposed, through.



This problem has been fixed in version 1.10.7-9 for the stable Debian

distribution and in version newer than 1.11.1p1debian-3 for the

testing and unstable distribution of Debian (not yet uploaded,

though).



We recommend that you upgrade your CVS package.



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 2.2 alias potato

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  Source archives:



    cvs_1.10.7-9.dsc
      MD5 checksum: f90a1612f3680766c535d4e8d6309ee2

    cvs_1.10.7-9.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: 08c24ca9e9bc9f6490bb38939a8c189e

    cvs_1.10.7.orig.tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: 614e72d2a6dff40f3f5bec2e9be270f2



  Architecture independent components:



    cvs-doc_1.10.7-9_all.deb
      MD5 checksum: e116fdd2fa30bf75b6e511fe6b6e6290



  Alpha architecture:



    cvs_1.10.7-9_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: a1de65bd246e17d2deb993647bfea4b8



  ARM architecture:



    cvs_1.10.7-9_arm.deb
      MD5 checksum: 63ae9530b2260ccd89ee8d5ec5fcd9b9



  Intel ia32 architecture:



    cvs_1.10.7-9_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: af8331fa78feee3029ebdde3e743adf5



  Motorola 680x0 architecture:



    cvs_1.10.7-9_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: 3b64d8696495ce8be5972c34277070a8



  PowerPC architecture:



    cvs_1.10.7-9_powerpc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 742a220829c357c5095bb40ce07f6f28



  Sun Sparc architecture:



    cvs_1.10.7-9_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: d3f832da7a1a7c228292dd32d6059075





  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on

  its next revision.



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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main

For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-securitydists/stable/updates/main

Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>



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