There is an update to cvs for CentOS-3.1
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-153.html referes.
Updated files are :-
updates/i386/RPMS/cvs-1.11.2-18.i386.rpm updates/i386/SRPMS/cvs-1.11.2-18.src.rpm
These are available at http://mirror.centos.org/3.1/ and should be on all mirrors within a few hours.
To update to the latest version 'yum update cvs' should be sufficient.
Lance