Advisories » MGASA-2017-0048

Updated viewvc packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 18 Feb 2017
Modification date: 18 Feb 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2017-5938

Description

Thomas Gerbet discovered that viewvc, a web interface for CVS and
Subversion repositories, did not properly sanitize user input. This
problem resulted in a potential Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability
(CVE-2017-5938).

The viewvc package has been updated to version 1.1.26 which fixes
this issue.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20262
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3784
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5938

SRPMS

5/core

• viewvc-1.1.26-1.mga5