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Gentoo: GLSA-200312-09 Critical Severity: FSEvents Vulnerability Patch

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Calendar Grey December 29, 2003
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Upgrade CVS to version 1.11.11 in order to address critical root compromise vulnerabilities on Gentoo setups.
Quote from : "Stable CVS 1.11.11 has been released

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- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200312-08 - --------------------------------------------------------------------------
GLSA: 200312-08 package: dev-util/cvs summary: Fix for possible root compromise when using CVS pserver severity: high Gentoo bug: 36142 date: 2003-12-28 exploit: unknown affected: <=1.11.10 fixed: >=1.11.11

DESCRIPTION:
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"Stable CVS 1.11.11 has been released. Stable releases contain only bug fixes from previous versions of CVS. This release adds code to the CVS server to prevent it from continuing as root after a user login, as an extra failsafe against a compromise of the CVSROOT/passwd file. Previously, any user with the ability to write the CVSROOT/passwd file could execute arbitrary code as the root user on systems with CVS pserver access enabled. We recommend this upgrade for all CVS se...

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