CVS malformed entry lines flaw

Summary
The remote CVS server, according to its version number, might allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the remote system because of a flaw relating to malformed Entry lines which lead to a missing NULL terminator. Among the issues deemed likely to be exploitable were: - a double-free relating to the error_prog_name string (CVE-2004-0416) - an argument integer overflow (CVE-2004-0417) - out-of-bounds writes in serv_notify (CVE-2004-0418)
Solution
Upgrade to CVS 1.12.9 or 1.11.17