[cvsnt] Re: Recent cvs vulnerability.

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Tue Jun 15 01:18:14 BST 2004


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Jonathan Belson wrote:

> Hiya
> 
> 
> I notice that the cvshome.com recently got hit by a remote exploit, and
> I was wondering if cvsnt shared this vulnerability (I looked back through
> the mailing list archives but didn't see any references to it).
> 
> This site implies that only pserver is affected:
> 
> http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0396
> 
> but cvshome.com suggests that *any* remote protocol is vulnerable.
> 
> My server uses sspi and has pserver disabled - do I have anything to worry
> about?
>

CVSNT has some extra checks that reduce the impact of such problems, but 
as far as I can tell it isn't vulnerable anyway.  I've tightened up some 
of the checking in the development versions to specifically check for 
someone trying something though.

Tony



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