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Gentoo GLSA-200504-16 High: CVS Multiple Issues Cause Remote Exploit

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Calendar Grey April 18, 2005
Scroller Gentoo
Several critical weaknesses in CVS may enable remote exploitation and denial-of-service assaults on Gentoo platforms.
Several serious vulnerabilities have been found in CVS, which may allow an attacker to remotely compromise a CVS server or cause a DoS.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200504-16 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: CVS: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: April 18, 2005 Bugs: #86476 ID: 200504-16

Synopsis ======= Several serious vulnerabilities have been found in CVS, which may allow an attacker to remotely compromise a CVS server or cause a DoS.
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 < 1.11.18-r1 >= 1.11.18-r1
========== Alen Zukich has discovered several serious security issues in CVS, including...

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