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CVE-2004-0405 (GCVE-0-2004-0405)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2004-04-17 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 00:17
VLAI
Summary
CVS before 1.11 allows CVS clients to read arbitrary files via .. (dot dot) sequences in filenames via CVS client requests, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0180.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-486 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=sl… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWARE
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advis… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SGI
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSD
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https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108636445031613&w=2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Date Public
2004-04-14 00:00
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