• Bug#266721: [CAN-2004-0778] Information Disclosure Vulnerability

    From J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)@1:229/2 to All on Wed Aug 18 22:50:07 2004
    From: [email protected]

    Package: cvs
    Version: 1.11.1p1debian-9woody7
    Severity: grave
    Tags: woody security upstream fixed-upstream

    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0778:

    +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Name | CAN-2004-0778 (under review) | |-------------+---------------------------------------------------------------| | | CVS 1.11.x before 1.11.17, and 1.12.x before 1.12.9, allows | | | remote attackers to determine the existence of arbitrary | | Description | files and directories via the -X command for an alternate | | | history file, which causes different error messages to be | | | returned. | |-------------+---------------------------------------------------------------| | References | * IDEFENSE:20040816 CVS Undocumented Flag Information | | | Disclosure Vulnerability | |-------------+---------------------------------------------------------------| | Phase | Assigned (20040811) | |-------------+---------------------------------------------------------------|

    The idefense advisory is available at http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=130&type=vulnerabilities

    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: 3.1
    APT prefers unstable
    APT policy: (800, 'unstable'), (750, 'experimental'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686)
    Kernel: Linux 2.4.27
    Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1

    Versions of packages cvs depends on:
    ii debconf 1.4.31 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libpam-runtime 0.76-22 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-5 compression library - runtime

    -- debconf information excluded
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    Obsig: developing a new sig


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  • From Florian Weimer@1:229/2 to All on Wed Aug 18 23:20:07 2004
    From: [email protected]

    * J. H. M. Dassen:

    The idefense advisory is available at http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=130&type=vulnerabilities

    There's a rebuttal at:

    <http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-August/025374.html>

    I'm not sure if DSA-505 (which was released in May) addresses this
    issue, though.


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