Info

Last Modified

7 days ago

Percent Complete

100%

Disclosure

May 19, 2004

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

May 19, 2004

Solution

Unknown

Description

A remote overflow exists in CVS. The issue is due to a boundary error within the handling of modified or unchanged flag insertion into CVS entry lines, resulting in a heap overflow. With a specially crafted request, an attacker can cause arbitrary code execution resulting in a loss of integrity.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.12.8 (feature release) or 1.11.16 (stable release) or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

CVS	CVS	1.11.15
		1.12.7

References

Bugtraq ID: 10384
Secunia Advisory ID: 11641 11647 11651 11653 11658 11661 11662 11664 11674 11677 11767 17389
ISS X-Force ID: 16193
CERT VU: 192038
CVE ID: 2004-0396 (see also: NVD)
Milw0rm: 300 301
Exploit Database: 300 301
SCIP VulDB ID: 666
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:10.cvs.asc ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2004-008.txt.asc ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2005-006.txt.asc http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-190.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-505
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200405-12.xml
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:048
http://www.openbsd.org/errata35.html#cvs2
http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2004&m=slackware-security.395865
http://www.suse.de/de/security/2004_13_cvs.html
Other Advisory URL: ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2005-004.txt.asc http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/072004.html
Vendor Specific Solution URL: http://ccvs.cvshome.org/servlets/ProjectDownloadList
Generic Exploit URL: http://packetstormsecurity.nl/0405-exploits/cvs_linux_freebsd_HEAP.c
http://packetstormsecurity.nl/0405-exploits/cvs_solaris_HEAP.c
CIAC Advisory: o-147
US-CERT Cyber Security Alert: TA04-147A

Tools & Filters

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Snort	13614 13615 13616

Credit

Stefan Esser - sesserhardened-php.net - www.hardened-php.net

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 7.5
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2003-12-31 | Disagree?

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