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SSA-2004-108-02 cvs security update

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
SSA-2004-108-02 cvs security update

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

CVS is a client/server version control system. As a server, it
is used to host source code repositories. As a client, it is
used to access such repositories. This advisory affects both uses
of CVS.

A security problem which could permit a server to create arbitrary
files on a client machine, and another security problem which may
permit a client to view files outside of the CVS repository have
been fixed with the release of cvs-1.11.15.

Any sites running CVS should upgrade to the new CVS package.

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Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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