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Scientific Linux: CVE-2010-3846 Moderate: CVS Buffer Overflow Risk

Calendar Mar 03, 2011 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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Moderate: cvs security update 
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 16:34:22 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: cvs on SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: cvs security update
Issue date:	2010-11-29
CVE Names:	CVE-2010-3846

An array index error, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found
in the way CVS applied certain delta fragment changes from input files
in the RCS (Revision Control System file) format. If an attacker in
control of a CVS repository stored a specially-crafted RCS file in that
repository, and then tricked a remote victim into checking out (updating
their CVS repository tree) a revision containing that file, it could
lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the CVS server
process on the system hosting the CVS repository. (CVE-2010-3846)

SL 6.x

 SRPMS:
cvs-1.11.23-11.el6_0.1.src.rpm
 i386:
cvs-1.11.23-11.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
 x86_64:
cvs-1.11.23-11.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson