Vulnerabilities > CVE-2002-0092 - Unspecified vulnerability in CVS

047910
CVSS 0.0 - NONE
Attack vector
UNKNOWN
Attack complexity
UNKNOWN
Privileges required
UNKNOWN
Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN
Integrity impact
UNKNOWN
Availability impact
UNKNOWN
cvs
nessus

Summary

CVS before 1.10.8 does not properly initialize a global variable, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash) via the diff capability.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Cvs
1

Nessus

NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-117.NASL
descriptionKim Nielsen recently found an internal problem with the CVS server and reported it to the vuln-dev mailing list. The problem is triggered by an improperly initialized global variable. A user exploiting this can crash the CVS server, which may be accessed through the pserver service and running under a remote user id. It is not yet clear if the remote account can be exposed, though.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id14954
published2004-09-29
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2004-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/14954
titleDebian DSA-117-1 : cvs - improper variable initialization
code
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-117. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(14954);
  script_version("1.15");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:16");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2002-0092");
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"117");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-117-1 : cvs - improper variable initialization");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Kim Nielsen recently found an internal problem with the CVS server and
reported it to the vuln-dev mailing list. The problem is triggered by
an improperly initialized global variable. A user exploiting this can
crash the CVS server, which may be accessed through the pserver
service and running under a remote user id. It is not yet clear if the
remote account can be exposed, though."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-117"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade the CVS package.

This problem has been fixed in version 1.10.7-9 for the stable Debian
distribution with help of Niels Heinen and in versions newer than
1.11.1p1debian-3 for the testing and unstable distribution of Debian
(not yet uploaded, though)."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cvs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:2.2");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2002/03/05");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2004/09/29");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2004-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"2.2", prefix:"cvs", reference:"1.10.7-9")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"2.2", prefix:"cvs-doc", reference:"1.10.7-9")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");

Redhat

advisories
rhsa
idRHSA-2002:026