GCVE-VVD-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	0 (affected), 1.12.13-26.1.mga6 (unaffected)	—
Mageia	cvs	0 (affected), 1.12.13-25.1.mga5 (unaffected)	—

Aliases

CVE-2017-12836

Transitive aliases

EUVD-2017-4494 SUSE-SU-2017:2419-1 SUSE-SU-2017:2422-1 GHSA-jqcx-qqvc-9wx5 GSD-2017-12976 GSD-2017-12836 CNVD-2017-28447 OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10708-1 VVD-GENTOO-2017-628488 CNVD-2017-29539 HSEC-2023-0009 EUVD-2017-4373 CVE-2017-12976 BDU:2018-00109 GHSA-gw7c-p8cp-7935

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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