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Remote Root Exploit in CVS

Posted by michael on from the checking-out dept.

RenHoek writes "Security expert Stefan Esser from E-matters discovered a bug in CVS version 1.11.4 and lower, that can give malignant users remote root access. The exploit was confirmed on BSD, but other OS's like Linux, Solaris and Windows are vulnerable too. A security advisory can be found here and there is also a patch available. CVS version 1.11.5 which is fixed can be downloaded as well."

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  1. Re:cvs as root? by jhealy1024 · · Score: 5, Informative

    What fool runs their cvs pserver as root?

    Ummm... People using Debian?

    On a stock Woody box:

    grep cvs /etc/inetd.conf
    cvspserver stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/cvs-pserver