Gentoo: GLSA 200405-14 Normal: Subversion Buffer Overflow

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200405-14 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Buffer overflow in Subversion Date: May 20, 2004 Bugs: #51462 ID: 200405-14

Synopsis ======= There is a vulnerability in the Subversion date parsing code which may lead to denial of service attacks, or execution of arbitrary code. Both the client and server are vulnerable.
Background ========= Subversion is a version control system intended to eventually replace CVS. Like CVS, it has an optional client-server architecture (where the server can be an Apache server running mod_svn, or an ssh program as in CVS's :ext: method). In addition to supporting the features found in CVS, Subversion also provides support for moving and copying files and directories.
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