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CVE-2003-0015

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 23.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2003-02-07 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-415

Description

Double-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.

Affected products

• Cvs: 1.10.7, 1.10.8, 1.11, 1.11.1, 1.11.1p1, 1.11.2 (+2)
• FreeBSD: 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 5.0

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q1/0028.html
• http://ccvs.cvshome.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsID=51&JServSessionIdservlets=5of2iuhr14
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104333092200589&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104342550612736&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104428571204468&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104438807203491&w=2
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-013.html
• http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/012003.html
• http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-02.html
• http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-032.shtml
• http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-233
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/650937

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