GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2017-284

Advisory Published

Vulnetix · Advisory published August 19, 2017

It was discovered that CVS, a centralised version control system, did not correctly handle maliciously constructed repository URLs, which allowed an attacker to run an arbitrary shell command (CVE-2017-12836).

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Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Platforms
Mageia	cvs	1.12.13-26.1.mga6 (unaffected), 0 (affected)	—
Mageia	cvs	1.12.13-25.1.mga5 (unaffected), 0 (affected)	—

Aliases

CVE-2017-12836

References

Updated cvs package fixes security vulnerability

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Updated cvs package fixes security vulnerability

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Updated cvs package fixes security vulnerability

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