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Fedora 24 : viewvc (2017-2bce6ed778)

high Nessus Plugin ID 97163

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Version 1.1.26 (released 24-Jan-2017)

 - security fix: escape nav_data name to avoid XSS attack

Version 1.1.25 (released 15-Sep-2016)

 - fix _rev2optrev assertion on long input

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
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://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-2bce6ed778

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 97163

File Name: fedora_2017-2bce6ed778.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/15/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:viewvc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/9/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/9/2017

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