FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-04:14.cvs

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FreeBSD-SA-04:14.cvs.asc                                  Security Advisory
                                                          The FreeBSD Project

Topic:          CVS

Category:       contrib
Module:         cvs
Announced:      2004-09-19
Credits:        Stefan Esser, Sebastian Krahmer, Derek Price
                iDEFENSE
Affects:        All FreeBSD versions
Corrected:      2004-06-29 16:10:50 UTC (RELENG_4)
                2004-09-19 22:26:22 UTC (RELENG_4_10, 4.10-RELEASE-p3)
                2004-09-19 22:27:36 UTC (RELENG_4_9, 4.9-RELEASE-p12)
                2004-09-19 22:28:14 UTC (RELENG_4_8, 4.8-RELEASE-p25)
                2004-09-19 22:37:10 UTC (RELENG_5_2, 5.2.1-RELEASE-p10)
CVE Name:       CAN-2004-0414, CAN-2004-0416, CAN-2004-0417, CAN-2004-0418,
                CAN-2004-0778
FreeBSD only:   NO

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I.   Background

The Concurrent Versions System (CVS) is a version control system.  It