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Fedora 16 : viewvc-1.1.17-1.fc16 (2012-16673)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 62824

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Patch CVE-2012-4533.

Version 1.1.16

 - security fix: escape 'extra' diff info to avoid XSS attack (issue #515)

 - add 'binary_mime_types' configuration option and handling (issue #510)

 - fix 'select for diffs' persistence across log pages (issue #512)

 - remove lock status and filesize check on directories in remote SVN views

 - fix bogus 'Annotation of' page title for non-annotated view (issue #514)

Version 1.1.17 (released 25-Oct-2012)

 - fix exception caused by uninitialized variable usage (issue #516)

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=868606

http://www.nessus.org/u?0dd84c3b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 62824

File Name: fedora_2012-16673.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/7/2012

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: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/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: 10/23/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4533

BID: 56161

FEDORA: 2012-16673