Fedora 10 : viewvc-1.0.9-1.fc10 (2009-8501)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40581

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

CHANGES in 1.0.9: - security fix: validate the 'view' parameter to avoid XSS attack - security fix: avoid printing illegal parameter names and values Also includes: Patch by Patrick Monnerat to make allow_tar work on F-10.

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=513006

http://www.nessus.org/u?19255a65

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40581

File Name: fedora_2009-8501.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/13/2009

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: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:viewvc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/12/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3618, CVE-2009-3619

CWE: 79

FEDORA: 2009-8501