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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.50366
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora Core 2 FEDORA-2004-131 (cvs)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to cvs
announced via advisory FEDORA-2004-131.

Stefan Esser discovered a flaw in cvs where malformed 'Entry' lines
could cause a heap overflow. An attacker who has access to a CVS
server could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code under the UID
which the CVS server is executing. The Common Vulnerabilities and
Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2004-0396
to this issue.

This update includes a patch by Derek Price, based on a patch by
Stefan Esser, which corrects this flaw.

This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/

e4e908430953b43fcd8543b4cf3ba123 SRPMS/cvs-1.11.15-6.src.rpm
a05f5a97fa3e6b9a51eba6f418b51092 i386/cvs-1.11.15-6.i386.rpm
8484fea6acfc241e351a16ad9199db47 i386/debug/cvs-debuginfo-1.11.15-6.i386.rpm
727d6b8fa0bd49ef2c9bbe4cf3205250 x86_64/cvs-1.11.15-6.x86_64.rpm
b7ad37eee7739318c78985d2b598f878 x86_64/debug/cvs-debuginfo-1.11.15-6.x86_64.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent
you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.
http://www.fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA-2004-131.shtml

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
7.5

Cross-Ref: BugTraq ID: 10384
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2004-0396
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10384
Bugtraq: 20040519 Advisory 07/2004: CVS remote vulnerability (Google Search)
http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/bugtraq/2004/05/msg00219.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108498454829020&w=2
Bugtraq: 20040519 [OpenPKG-SA-2004.022] OpenPKG Security Advisory (cvs) (Google Search)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108500040719512&w=2
Cert/CC Advisory: TA04-147A
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-147A.html
CERT/CC vulnerability note: VU#192038
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/192038
Computer Incident Advisory Center Bulletin: O-147
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-147.shtml
Debian Security Information: DSA-505 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-505
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108636445031613&w=2
FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-04:10
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:10.cvs.asc
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-05/0980.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200405-12.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:048
http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/072004.html
NETBSD Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2004-008
ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2004-008.txt.asc
OpenBSD Security Advisory: 20040520 cvs server buffer overflow vulnerability
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-security-announce&m=108508894405639&w=2
http://www.osvdb.org/6305
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9058
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A970
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-190.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/11641
http://secunia.com/advisories/11647
http://secunia.com/advisories/11651
http://secunia.com/advisories/11652
http://secunia.com/advisories/11674
http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2004&m=slackware-security.395865
SuSE Security Announcement: SuSE-SA:2004:013 (Google Search)
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-May/021742.html
XForce ISS Database: cvs-entry-line-bo(16193)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16193
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