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>> CVSTrac "is_eow()" Commit Message Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

Title : CVSTrac "is_eow()" Commit Message Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-0398
CVE ID : CVE-2007-0347
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-01-29


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A vulnerability has been identified in CVSTrac, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is due to an error in the "is_eow()" [format.c] function when handling malformed commit messages, tickets or Wiki pages, which could be exploited by attackers with check-in permissions and Wiki or ticket edit permissions to create a denial of service condition.

Affected Products

CVSTrac version 2.0.0 and prior

Solution

Upgrade to CVSTrac version 2.0.1 :
http://www.cvstrac.org/cvstrac-2.0.1.tar.gz

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0398
http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.008.html

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Ralf S. Engelschall

ChangeLog

2007-01-29 : Initial release

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