Fedora alert FEDORA-2004-131 (cvs)

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Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>
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[SECURITY] Fedora Core 2 Update: cvs-1.11.15-6
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Wed, 19 May 2004 11:45:13 -0400

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-131
2004-05-19
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Product     : Fedora Core 2
Name        : cvs
Version     : 1.11.15                      
Release     : 6                  
Summary     : A version control system.
Description :
CVS (Concurrent Version System) is a version control system that can
record the history of your files (usually, but not always, source
code). CVS only stores the differences between versions, instead of
every version of every file you have ever created. CVS also keeps a log
of who, when, and why changes occurred.

CVS is very helpful for managing releases and controlling the
concurrent editing of source files among multiple authors. Instead of
providing version control for a collection of files in a single
directory, CVS provides version control for a hierarchical collection
of directories consisting of revision controlled files. These
directories and files can then be combined together to form a software
release.

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Update Information:

Stefan Esser discovered a flaw in cvs where malformed "Entry" lines
could cause a heap overflow. An attacker who has access to a CVS
server could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code under the UID
which the CVS server is executing. The Common Vulnerabilities and
Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2004-0396
to this issue.

This update includes a patch by Derek Price, based on a patch by
Stefan Esser, which corrects this flaw.

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* Tue May 18 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 1.11.15-6

- rebuild

* Thu May 13 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 1.11.15-5

- use revised version of Stefan Esser's patch provided by Derek Robert Price

* Mon May 03 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 1.11.15-4

- rebuild

* Mon May 03 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 1.11.15-3

- add patch from Stefan Esser to close CAN-2004-0396

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This update can be downloaded from:
  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/

e4e908430953b43fcd8543b4cf3ba123  SRPMS/cvs-1.11.15-6.src.rpm
a05f5a97fa3e6b9a51eba6f418b51092  i386/cvs-1.11.15-6.i386.rpm
8484fea6acfc241e351a16ad9199db47  i386/debug/cvs-debuginfo-1.11.15-6.i386.rpm
727d6b8fa0bd49ef2c9bbe4cf3205250  x86_64/cvs-1.11.15-6.x86_64.rpm
b7ad37eee7739318c78985d2b598f878  x86_64/debug/cvs-debuginfo-1.11.15-6.x86_64.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.  
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