Vulnerability CVE-2004-1471
Published: 2004-12-31   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Format string vulnerability in wrapper.c in CVS 1.12.x through 1.12.8, and 1.11.x through 1.11.16 allows remote attackers with CVSROOT commit access to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a wrapper line.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.1/10
10/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
High
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
SGI -> Propack 
Openpkg -> Openpkg 
Openbsd -> Openbsd 
Gentoo -> Linux 
Freebsd -> Freebsd 
CVS -> CVS 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10499
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/16365
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-June/022441.html
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:14.cvs.asc
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