-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 - -------------------- 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 - -------------------------------- 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. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAgIo7ArxCt0PiXR4RAlZNAJ4+gWfOz8a9RCG6YZm0BxQug4Kn1gCgiX8y uLpUTUQ/UcvRQlkHhIGYq6U= =zLZw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----