• News
• Infocus
• Foundations
• Microsoft
• Unix
• IDS
• Incidents
• Virus
• Pen-Test
• Firewalls
• Columnists
• Mailing Lists
• Newsletters
• Bugtraq
• Focus on IDS
• Focus on Linux
• Focus on Microsoft
• Forensics
• Pen-test
• Security Basics
• Vuln Dev
• Vulnerabilities
• Jobs
• Job Opportunities
• Resumes
• Job Seekers
• Employers
• Tools
• RSS
• News
• Vulns
• Security Research

• info
• discussion
• exploit
• solution
• references

CVS Daemon RCS Off By One Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

CVS is the concurrent versioning system. CVS is a freely available, open source software development package for the Unix, Linux, and Microsoft Windows platforms.

Due to a boundry condition error, it may be possible for a local attacker to execute arbitrary code. The rcs.c file contains an off-by-one error that could result in an attacker overwriting portions of stack memory, and executing arbitrary code.