Summary
The remote host is missing an update to viewvc
announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-8507.
Solution
Apply the appropriate updates.
This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use su -c 'yum update viewvc' at the command line.
For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum, available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2009-8507
Insight
Update Information:
CHANGES in 1.1.2:
- security fix: validate the 'view' parameter to avoid XSS attack - security fix: avoid printing illegal parameter names and values - add optional support for character encoding detection (issue #400) - fix username case handling in svnauthz module (issue #419) - fix cvsdbadmin/svnadmin rebuild error on missing repos (issue #420) - don't drop leading blank lines from colorized file contents (issue #422) - add file.ezt template logic for optionally hiding binary file contents
Also includes: Install and populate mimetypes.conf. This should hopefully help when colouring syntax using pygments.
Install and populate mimetypes.conf.
ChangeLog:
* Wed Aug 12 2009 Bojan Smojver - 1.1.2-2
- fix replacement of varius config variables
* Wed Aug 12 2009 Bojan Smojver - 1.1.2-1
- bump up to 1.1.2
- security fix: validate the 'view' parameter to avoid XSS attack - security fix: avoid printing illegal parameter names and values * Tue Aug 11 2009 Bojan Smojver - 1.1.1-2
- install mimetypes.conf
- populate mimetypes.conf with what pygments understands
References
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-3618, CVE-2009-3619 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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