Debian 3.0 Woody DSA 715-1 Moderate: CVS Remote Access Issues

Maks Polunin and Alberto Garcia discovered independently that
using the pserver access method in connection with the repouid
patch that Debian uses it is possible to bypass the password and
gain access to the repository in question.

CAN-2004-1343

Alberto Garcia discovered that a remote user can cause the cvs
server to crash when the cvs-repouids file exists but does not
contain a mapping for the current repository, which can be used as
a denial of service attack.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.11.1p1debian-10.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.12.9-11.

We recommend that you upgrade your cvs package.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------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
...