USN-117-1: cvs vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 5.04
• Ubuntu 4.10

Details

Alen Zukich discovered a buffer overflow in the processing of version
and author information in the CVS client. By tricking an user to
connect to a malicious CVS server, an attacker could exploit this to
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the connecting user.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 5.04

• cvs -

Ubuntu 4.10

• cvs -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2005-0753