National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-0414

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 incomplete approximation):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-517

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-517

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20040611 [OpenPKG-SA-2004.027] OpenPKG Security Advisory (cvs)

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=108716553923643&w=2

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2004:233

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-233.html

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200406-06

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200406-06.xml

External Source: MISC

Name: http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/092004.html

Hyperlink:http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/092004.html

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10575

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10575

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20040609 Advisory 09/2004: More CVS remote vulnerabilities

Hyperlink:http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-June/022441.html

External Source: SGI

Name: 20040605-01-U

Hyperlink:ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20040605-01-U.asc

External Source: SGI

Name: 20040604-01-U

Hyperlink:ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20040604-01-U.asc

External Source: MANDRAKE

Name: MDKSA-2004:058

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:058

US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:993

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:993

Type: Tool Signature

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:993

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10575

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10575

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:993

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:993