Description
CVS 1.12.x through 1.12.8, and 1.11.x through 1.11.16, does not properly handle malformed "Entry" lines, which prevents a NULL terminator from being used and may lead to a denial of service (crash), modification of critical program data, or arbitrary code execution.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Access Vector
- network
- Access Cmplx
- low
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- complete
- Integrity
- complete
- Availability
- complete
- Weaknesses
- NVD-CWE-Other
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- CVS
- Published
- 8/6/2004
- Last Modified
- 4/3/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
cvs : cvscvs : cvscvs : cvscvs : cvscvs : cvscvs : cvscvs : cvscvs : cvscvs : cvscvs : cvscvs : cvscvs : cvscvs : cvscvs : cvscvs : cvscvs : cvscvs : cvscvs : cvscvs : cvscvs : cvsopenpkg : openpkgopenpkg : openpkgopenpkg : openpkgsgi : propacksgi : propackgentoo : linuxopenbsd : openbsdopenbsd : openbsdopenbsd : openbsd
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