CVE-2003-0015

Summary

CVECVE-2003-0015
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2003-02-07 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionDouble-free vulnerability in CVS 1.11.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed Directory request, as demonstrated by bypassing write checks to execute Update-prog and Checkin-prog commands.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-415 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Cvs Cvs 1.10.7 All All All
Application Cvs Cvs 1.10.8 All All All
Application Cvs Cvs 1.11 All All All
Application Cvs Cvs 1.11.1 All All All
Application Cvs Cvs 1.11.1p1 All All All
Application Cvs Cvs 1.11.2 All All All
Application Cvs Cvs 1.11.3 All All All
Application Cvs Cvs 1.11.4 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.4 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.5 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.6 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 4.7 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 5.0 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
ccvs.cvshome.org/servlets/NewsItemView af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ccvs.cvshome.org Broken Link
'Exploit for CVS double free() for Linux pserver' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
CERT/CC Vulnerability Note VU#650937 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-032.shtml af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ciac.org
redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
'[[email protected]: [slackware-security] New CVS packages available]' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
CERT Advisory CA-2003-02 Double-Free Bug in CVS Server af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.cert.org US Government Resource
redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
CVS Directory Request Double Free Heap Corruption Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
'FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-03:01.cvs' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
Mandrakesoft Security Advisories af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandrakesoft.com
Advisory 01/2003 - CVS remote vulnerability | e-matters af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.e-matters.de Patch, Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-233-1 cvs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
'Test program for CVS double-free.' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
Neohapsis Archives - VulnWatch - [VulnWatch] Advisory 01/2003: CVS remote vulnerability - From s.esser_at_e-matters.de af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 archives.neohapsis.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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