[tex-live] CVS security issue

Nelson H. F. Beebe beebe at math.utah.edu
Tue Dec 21 16:53:51 CET 2004


At http://www.cvshome.org/ is this important news item:

        The cvshome site is currently being thoroughly cleaned as a
        direct result of an exploitative code set that attacks a cvs
        security violation. The publication of this code makes all sites
        running cvs with any remote protocol vulnerable. Use the following
        information to determine if your site is at risk and to access
        either a patch for this problem or a full source distribution
        with the fix included.

Since the TeXlive source tree is being migrated to CVS, this seems highly
relevant.

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