Fedora 16 : viewvc-1.1.15-1.fc16 (2012-9371)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 59950

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Version 1.1.14 (released 12-Jun-2012)

- fix annotation of svn files with non-URI-safe paths (issue #504)

- handle file:/// Subversion rootpaths as local roots (issue #446)

- fix bug caused by trying to case-normalize anon usernames (issue #505)

- speed up log handling by reusing tokenization results (issue #506)

- add support for custom review log markup rules (issue #429)

Version 1.1.15 (released 22-Jun-2012)

- security fix: complete authz support for remote SVN views (issue #353)

- security fix: log msg leak in SVN revision view with unreadable copy source

- fix several instances of incorrect information in remote SVN views

- increase performance of some revision metadata lookups in remote SVN views

- fix RSS feed regression introduced in 1.1.14

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=835293

http://www.nessus.org/u?6b70c6f4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 59950

File Name: fedora_2012-9371.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:viewvc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/14/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3356, CVE-2012-3357

BID: 54197, 54199

FEDORA: 2012-9371