CAN-2005-0753: cvs buffer overflow, memory leaks, NULL pointer free

Bug #16524 reported by Tres Seaver
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
cvs (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

CVS has one or more buffer overflow vulnerabilities, memory leaks, and a NULL
pointer dereferencing error. These can be used to launch a remote denial of
service or to remotely execute arbitrary code.

https://ccvs.cvshome.org/source/browse/ccvs/NEWS?rev=1.116.2.127&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup: https://ccvs.cvshome.org/source/browse/ccvs/NEWS?rev=1.116.2.127&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

This has been fixed some days ago in

  chttp://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-117-1

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