<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200803-29"> <title>ViewVC: Multiple vulnerabilities</title> <synopsis> Multiple security issues have been reported in ViewVC, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">viewvc</product> <announced>March 19, 2008</announced> <revised>April 01, 2009: 02</revised> <bug>212288</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="www-apps/viewvc" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">1.0.5</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">1.0.5</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> ViewVC is a browser interface for CVS and Subversion version control repositories. </p> </background> <description> <p> Multiple unspecified errors were reportedly fixed by the ViewVC development team. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A remote attacker could send a specially crafted URL to the server to list CVS or SVN commits on "all-forbidden" files, access hidden CVSROOT folders, and view restricted content via the revision view, the log history, or the diff view. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All ViewVC users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/viewvc-1.0.5"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1290">CVE-2008-1290</uri> <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1291">CVE-2008-1291</uri> <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1292">CVE-2008-1292</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:06:35 +0000"> p-y </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:06:42 +0000"> p-y </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:33:23 +0000"> mfleming </metadata> </glsa>