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Re: Typo in webwml/english/News/weekly/2004/21/index.wml



On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 07:09:42PM +0900, SUGIYAMA Tomoaki wrote:
> I think that it is not "Buffer overflow" but "Heap overflow" on
> line 136 in webwml/english/News/weekly/2004/21/index.wml file.
> 
> > <li><a href="$(HOME)/security/2004/dsa-505">cvs</a> --
> >     Buffer overflow.

The CVE advisory says

 Heap-based buffer overflow in CVS 1.11.x up to 1.11.15, and
 1.12.x up to 1.12.7, when using the pserver mechanism allows
 remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via Entry lines.

so I think both descriptions are correct.

-- 
Matt Kraai            kraai@ftbfs.org            http://ftbfs.org/



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