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Debian DSA-605-1 : viewcvs - settings not honored

medium Nessus Plugin ID 15907

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Haris Sehic discovered several vulnerabilities in viewcvs, a utility for viewing CVS and Subversion repositories via HTTP. When exporting a repository as a tar archive the hide_cvsroot and forbidden settings were not honoured enough.

When upgrading the package for woody, please make a copy of your /etc/viewcvs/viewcvs.conf file if you have manually edited this file.
Upon upgrade the debconf mechanism may alter it in a way so that viewcvs doesn't understand it anymore.

Solution

Upgrade the viewcvs package.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.2-4woody1.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-605

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 15907

File Name: debian_DSA-605.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/6/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:viewcvs

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 12/6/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/6/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0915

DSA: 605