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Fedora 11 : viewvc-1.1.2-2.fc11 (2009-8507)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 40582
Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
CHANGES in 1.1.2: - security fix: validate the 'view' parameter to avoid XSS attack - security fix: avoid printing illegal parameter names and values - add optional support for character encoding detection (issue #400) - fix username case handling in svnauthz module (issue #419) - fix cvsdbadmin/svnadmin rebuild error on missing repos (issue #420) - don't drop leading blank lines from colorized file contents (issue #422) - add file.ezt template logic for optionally hiding binary file contents Also includes: Install and populate mimetypes.conf. This should hopefully help when colouring syntax using pygments. Install and populate mimetypes.conf.Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected viewvc package.See Also
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514773
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514909
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 40582
File Name: fedora_2009-8507.nasl
Version: 1.11
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 8/13/2009
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.0
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: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:viewvc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:11
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Patch Publication Date: 8/12/2009
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2009-3618, CVE-2009-3619