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Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1003 Date: 2004-06-29
Title: CVS serve_notify Improper Handling of Empty Data Lines
Description: serve_notify in CVS 1.12.x through 1.12.8, and 1.11.x through 1.11.16, does not properly handle empty data lines, which may allow remote attackers to perform an "out-of-bounds" write for a single byte to execute arbitrary code or modify critical program data.
Version: 1 Class: vulnerability
Status: ACCEPTED Reference(s): CVE-2004-0418
Family: unix
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Product(s): CVS
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