Debian: DSA-520-1 Critical: Multiple CVS Security Issues

Sebastian Krahmer and Stefan Esser discovered several vulnerabilities
in the CVS server, which serves the popular Concurrent Versions
System. The Common Vulnerability and Exposures project identifies the
following problems:

CAN-2004-0416: double-free() in error_prog_name

CAN-2004-0417: argument integer overflow

CAN-2004-0418: out of bound writes in serve_notify()

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.11.1p1debian-9woody7.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.12.9-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your cvs package.


Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
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