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Gentoo GLSA-202311-17 High Risk: Git Repo DoS and Code Execution

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Calendar Grey June 10, 2004
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Investigate recent security flaws in CVS impacting Gentoo Linux and crucial enhancements to safeguard your operating environment.
Several serious new vulnerabilities have been found in CVS, which may allow an attacker to remotely compromise a CVS server.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200406-06 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: CVS: additional DoS and arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities Date: June 10, 2004 Bugs: #53408 ID: 200406-06

Synopsis ======= Several serious new vulnerabilities have been found in CVS, which may allow an attacker to remotely compromise a CVS server.
Background ========= CVS (Concurrent Versions System) is an open-source network-transparent version control system. It contains both a client utility and a server.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-util/cvs <= 1.11.16-r1 >= 1.11.17
========== A team audit of the CVS source code performed by Stefan Esser and Sebastian Kra...

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