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

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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:36:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: viewvc: CVE request: XSS and illegal characters
 while printing name-value pairs

Plese use these ids:

CVE-2009-3618 viewvc XSS (rev 2215)
CVE-2009-3619 viewvc print illegal parameter names unsafely (rev 2218)

-- 
    JB


----- "Ludwig Nussel" <ludwig.nussel@...e.de> wrote:

> Thomas Biege wrote:
> > 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
> 
> CVE request dropped off the radar I guess.
> 
> cu
> Ludwig
> 
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