oss-security - viewvc: CVE request: XSS and illegal characters while printing name-value pairs

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 10:52:34 +0200
From: Thomas Biege <thomas@...e.de>
To: OSS-Security Mailinglist <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: viewvc: CVE request: XSS and illegal characters while printing name-value pairs

Hello,
I do not have any further details, just this changelog entries:

Version 1.1.2 (released 11-Aug-2009)

  * security fix: validate the 'view' parameter to avoid XSS attack
  * security fix: avoid printing illegal parameter names and values

http://viewvc.tigris.org/source/browse/*checkout*/viewvc/tags/1.1.2/CHANGES

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Bye,
     Thomas
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