CVE-2004-0414

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-08-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

CVS 1.12.x through 1.12.8, and 1.11.x through 1.11.16, does not properly handle malformed "Entry" lines, which prevents a NULL terminator from being used and may lead to a denial of service (crash), modification of critical program data, or arbitrary code execution.

Affected products

Cvs: 1.10.7, 1.10.8, 1.11, 1.11.1, 1.11.1_p1, 1.11.2 (+14)
gentoo Linux: 1.4
OpenBSD: 3.4, 3.5
Openpkg: 1.3, 2.0
Sgi Propack: 2.4, 3.0

References

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-June/022441.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108716553923643&w=2
http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/092004.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200406-06.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-517
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:058
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-233.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10575
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A993

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