Debian: 'cvs' Improver variable initialization
Summary
Kim Nielsen recently found an internal problem with the CVS server and
reported it to the vuln-dev mailing list. The problem is triggered by
an improperly initialized global variable. A user exploiting this can
crash the CVS server, which may be accessed through the pserver
service and running under a remote user id. It is not yet clear if
the remote account can be exposed, through.
This problem has been fixed in version 1.10.7-9 for the stable Debian
distribution and in version newer than 1.11.1p1debian-3 for the
testing and unstable distribution of Debian (not yet uploaded,
though).
We recommend that you upgrade your CVS package.
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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Source archives:
MD5 checksum: f90a1612f3680766c535d4e8d6309ee2
MD5 checksum: 08c24ca9e9bc9f6490bb38939a8c189e
MD5 checksum: 614e72d2a6dff40f3f5bec2e9be270f2
Architecture independent components:
MD5 checksum: e116fdd2fa30bf75b6e511fe6b6e6290
Alpha architecture:
MD5 checksum: a1de65bd246e17d2deb993647bfea4b8
ARM architecture:
MD5 checksum: 63ae9530b2260ccd89ee8d5ec5fcd9b9
Intel ia32 architecture:
MD5 checksum: af8331fa78feee3029ebdde3e743adf5
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
MD5 checksum: 3b64d8696495ce8be5972c34277070a8
PowerPC architecture:
MD5 checksum: 742a220829c357c5095bb40ce07f6f28
Sun Sparc architecture:
MD5 checksum: d3f832da7a1a7c228292dd32d6059075
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.