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CVE-2002-0092 (GCVE-0-2002-0092)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2002-06-25 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 02:35
VLAI
Summary
CVS before 1.10.8 does not properly initialize a global variable, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash) via the diff capability.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=101422243817321&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_VULN-DEV
http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=101433077724524&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_VULN-DEV
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-026.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8366.php vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-117 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Date Public
2002-02-20 00:00
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