Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-51
Advisory Release Date: 2012-03-04 16:12 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 15:39 Pacific
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the CVS client handled responses from HTTP proxies. A malicious HTTP proxy could use this flaw to cause the CVS client to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the CVS client. (CVE-2012-0804)
Affected Packages:
cvs
Issue Correction:
Run yum update cvs to update your system.
i686:
cvs-debuginfo-1.11.23-11.6.amzn1.i686
cvs-1.11.23-11.6.amzn1.i686
src:
cvs-1.11.23-11.6.amzn1.src
x86_64:
cvs-1.11.23-11.6.amzn1.x86_64
cvs-debuginfo-1.11.23-11.6.amzn1.x86_64