Summary
The remote host is missing an update to gforge-plugin-scmcvs announced via advisory DSA 1297-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201297-1
Insight
Bernhard R. Link discovered that the CVS browsing interface of Gforge, a collaborative development tool, performs insufficient escaping of URLs, which allows the execution of arbitrary shell commands with the privileges of the www-data user.
The oldstable distribution (sarge) is not affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 4.5.14-5.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.5.14-6.
We recommend that you upgrade your gforge-plugin-scmcvs package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2007-0246 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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