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Fedora: FLSA-1207 Critical: CVS Root Access Exploit Fix

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Calendar Grey February 2, 2004
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Critical security advisory for Fedora addresses CVS root access exploit that may compromise system integrity.
Vulnerabilities allow cvs to write to root filesystem and retain root privileges.

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security advisory Red Hat critical access control root access CVS cvs update

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CVE -CVE-2003-0977







9. Contact:

The Fedora Legacy security contact is <secnotice@fedoralegacy.org>. More project details at

- -- Jesse Keating RHCE ( ) Fedora Legacy Team (http://www.fedoralegacy.org)



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