Fedora 11 : viewvc-1.1.3-1.fc11 (2009-13634)

high Nessus Plugin ID 43607

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- security fix: add root listing support of per-root authz config * security fix: query.py requires 'forbidden' authorizer (or none) in config * fix URL- ification of truncated log messages (issue #3) * fix regexp input validation (issue #426, #427, #440) * add support for configurable tab-to-spaces conversion * fix not-a-sequence error in diff view * allow viewvc-install to work when templates-contrib is absent * minor template improvements/corrections

- expose revision metadata in diff view (issue #431) * markup file/directory item property URLs and email addresses (issue #434) * make ViewVC cross copies in Subversion history by default * fix bug that caused standalone.py failure under Python 1.5.2 (issue #442) * fix support for per-vhost overrides of authorizer parameters (issue #411) * fix root name identification in query.py interface

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://www.nessus.org/u?a90883e7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 43607

File Name: fedora_2009-13634.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/29/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:viewvc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:11

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/24/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0004, CVE-2010-0005

CWE: 200, 264

FEDORA: 2009-13634