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Debian DSA-3490-1 : websvn - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 88942

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Jakub Palaczynski discovered that websvn, a web viewer for Subversion repositories, does not correctly sanitize user-supplied input, which allows a remote user to run reflected cross-site scripting attacks.

Solution

Upgrade the websvn packages.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.3-1.1+deb7u2.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.3-1.2+deb8u1.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/websvn

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/websvn

https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3490

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 88942

File Name: debian_DSA-3490.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/25/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:websvn

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 2/23/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2511

DSA: 3490