Debian 3.0 DSA-742-1 Critical: CVS Buffer Overflow Remote Exec
debian
July 7, 2005
Derek Price, the current maintainer of CVS, discovered a buffer
overflow in the CVS server, that serves the popular Concurrent
Versions System, which could lead to the execution ...
Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.12.9-13.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.12.9-13.
We recommend that you upgrade your cvs package.
Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------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
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
Size/MD5 checksum: 683 5e63610a590a16f61203fab6a71ccf22
Size/MD5 checksum: 57006 a143203742f3f812d951effcf4c37d0d
Size/MD5 checksum: 2621658 500965ab9702b31605f8c58aa21a6205
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1179278 1d956...
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