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Fedora 12 : viewvc-1.1.5-1.fc12 (2010-5524)

low Nessus Plugin ID 47396

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Full changelog:
http://viewvc.tigris.org/source/browse/viewvc/trunk/CHANGES?r evision=2359&view=markup&pathrev=HEAD - security fix: escape user-provided search_re input to avoid XSS attack

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

http://viewvc.tigris.org/source/browse/viewvc/trunk/CHANGES?r

http://www.nessus.org/u?de672c28

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 47396

File Name: fedora_2010-5524.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/1/2010

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: Low

Base Score: 2.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:viewvc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:12

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 4/1/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0132

FEDORA: 2010-5524