Re: "cvs admin -m" causes segmentation faults

[Larry Jones]

Matthias Scheler writes:
> 
> I tried to correct a typo in a very commit message today (more than 4KB)
> with a command like this one:
[...]
> "cvs" died with a segmentation fault. I shortened the CVS commit message
> by several lines and "cvs admin" worked. I readded a few lines, the local
> "cvs" process worked fine but the remote "cvs server" process crashed. It
> looks to me like a buffer overflow which can be abused to gain shell
> access to a remote CVS server.

I don't see anything obviously wrong with the code -- is there any
chance you could get a traceback from one of the crashes?

> This is with CVS 1.11.20 under NetBSD-i386 3.0_BETA.

Is that the client, the server, or both?  (The "cvs version" command in
a working directory prints both client and server info.)

-Larry Jones

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to finding a cure for jerks. -- Calvin