7.5 - USN-117-1

Executive Summary

Summary
Title	cvs vulnerability

Informations
Name	USN-117-1	First vendor Publication	2005-05-04
Vendor	Ubuntu	Last vendor Modification	2005-05-04
Severity (Vendor)	N/A	Revision	N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score	NA
Base Score	NA	Environmental Score	NA
impact SubScore	NA	Temporal Score	NA
Exploitabality Sub Score	NA

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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score	7.5	Attack Range	Network
Cvss Impact Score	6.4	Attack Complexity	Low
Cvss Expoit Score	10	Authentication	None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog)

The following packages are affected:

cvs

The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 1:1.12.9-1ubuntu0.1 (for Ubuntu 4.10), or 1:1.12.9-9ubuntu0.1 (for Ubuntu 5.04). In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

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.