cvs - several vulnerabilities

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered and fixed in CVS:

• CAN-2004-0180
  Sebastian Krahmer discovered a vulnerability whereby
  a malicious CVS pserver could create arbitrary files on the client
  system during an update or checkout operation, by supplying absolute
  pathnames in RCS diffs.

• CAN-2004-0405
  Derek Robert Price discovered a vulnerability whereby
  a CVS pserver could be abused by a malicious client to view the
  contents of certain files outside of the CVS root directory using
  relative pathnames containing “…/”.

For the current stable distribution (woody) these problems have been
fixed in version 1.11.1p1debian-9woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you update your cvs package.