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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200301-12 |
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PACKAGE : cvs |
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SUMMARY : arbitrary code execution |
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DATE : 2003-01-21 09:43 UTC |
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EXPLOIT : remote |
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- From advisory: |
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"By sending a malformed directory name it is possible to trigger an |
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error condition that will make the function return at a point where a |
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global pointer variable is already freed and has not got a new value |
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assigned yet. This will result in a classical double-free() when the |
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next Directory request is handled. With the help of other CVS requests |
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it is possible to either leak some information that could be used to |
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determine the heap position or to execute arbitrary code on systems |
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that are known to be vulnerable to this kind of bugs." |
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Read the full advisory at |
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http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/012003.html |
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SOLUTION |
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It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running |
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dev-util/cvs upgrade to cvs-1.11.5 as follows: |
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emerge sync |
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emerge -u cvs |
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emerge clean |
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aliz@g.o - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz |
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