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Fedora 13 : viewvc-1.1.11-1.fc13 (2011-7198)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 54908

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- security fix: remove user-reachable override of cvsdb row limit

 - fix broken standalone.py -c and -d options handling

 - add --help option to standalone.py

 - fix stack trace when asked to checkout a directory (issue #478)

 - improve memory usage and speed of revision log markup (issue #477)

 - fix broken annotation view in CVS keyword-bearing files (issue #479)

 - warn users when query results are incomplete (issue #443)

 - avoid parsing errors on RCS newphrases in the admin section (issue #483)

 - make rlog parsing code more robust in certain error cases (issue #444)

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=706274

http://www.nessus.org/u?23d681d9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 54908

File Name: fedora_2011-7198.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/31/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:viewvc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:13

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/19/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-5024

FEDORA: 2011-7198