OpenPKG Security Advisory

Publisher Name:          OpenPKG GmbH
Publisher Home:          http://openpkg.com/

Advisory Id (public):    OpenPKG-SA-2005.007
Advisory Type:           OpenPKG Security Advisory (SA)
Advisory Directory:      http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA
Advisory Document:       http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA-2005.007
Advisory Published:      2008-10-06 23:02 UTC

Issue Id (internal):     OpenPKG-SI-20050610.01
Issue First Created:     2005-06-10
Issue Last Modified:     2006-11-28
Issue Revision:          05


Subject Name:            CVS
Subject Summary:         Concurrent Versions Systems (CVS)
Subject Home:            http://www.cvshome.org/
Subject Versions:        * <= 1.12.11

Vulnerability Id:        CVE-2004-0797
Vulnerability Scope:     global (not OpenPKG specific)

Attack Feasibility:      run-time
Attack Vector:           remote network
Attack Impact:           denial of service

Description:
    According to a Debian bug report [0], a Denial of Service (DoS)
    vulnerability exists in the embedded ZLib [1] compression logic of
    the Concurrent Versions Systems (CVS). The problem involves incorrect
    error handling in the inflate() and inflateBack() functions.

References:
    [0] http://bugs.debian.org/252253
    [1] http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
    [2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0797
    [3] http://www.openpkg.org/tutorial.html#regular-source
    [4] http://www.openpkg.org/tutorial.html#regular-binary
    [5] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.3/UPD/cvs-1.12.9-2.3.1.src.rpm
    [6] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.2/UPD/cvs-1.12.9-2.2.1.src.rpm
    [7] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.3/UPD/
    [8] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.2/UPD/
    [9] http://www.openpkg.org/security.html#signature


Primary Package Name:    cvs
Primary Package Home:    http://openpkg.org/go/package/cvs

Affected Distribution:   Affected Branch:  Affected Package:
OpenPKG Community        2.2-SOLID         cvs-1.12.9-2.2.0
OpenPKG Community        2.3-SOLID         cvs-1.12.9-2.3.0
OpenPKG Community        CURRENT           cvs-1.12.11-20050408

Corrected Distribution:  Corrected Branch: Corrected Package:
OpenPKG Community        2.2-SOLID         cvs-1.12.9-2.2.1
OpenPKG Community        2.3-SOLID         cvs-1.12.9-2.3.1
OpenPKG Community        CURRENT           cvs-1.12.11-20050504