Description
CVS before 1.10.8 does not properly initialize a global variable, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash) via the diff capability.
References
- 4234 vdb-entry
- 20020220 Help needed with bufferoverflow in cvs mailing-list
- 20020220 Re: [Fwd: Help needed with bufferoverflow in cvs] mailing-list
- RHSA-2002:026 vendor-advisory
- cvs-global-var-dos(8366) vdb-entry
- DSA-117 vendor-advisory