6830 : CVS Entry Line Null Termination DoS
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2004-06-10

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2004-0414" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : CVS 1.12.x through 1.12.8, and 1.11.x through 1.11.16, does not properly handle malformed "Entry" lines, which prevents a NULL terminator from being used and may lead to a denial of service (crash), modification of critical program data, or arbitrary code execution.

Classification

Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

Vendor Specific Solution URL: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200406-06.xml
Secunia Advisory ID: 11817 11818 11820 11822 11826 11829 11834 11842 11850 11853 12598 17389
CVE ID: 2004-0414 (see also: NVD)
Related OSVDB ID: 6831 6832 6833 6834 6835 6836
Other Advisory URL: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:14.cvs.asc ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2005-004.txt.asc http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-233.html
http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/092004.html
http://www.suse.de/de/security/2004_15_cvs.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2005-006.txt.asc http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-517
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:058
http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2004&m=slackware-security.427370

Tools & Filters

	12265 12500 13723 13724 14157 14517 14812 15354 18779

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 10.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2003-12-31 | Disagree?

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