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Gentoo: 200412-26 Low Severity: ViewCVS XSS And Information Leak

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Calendar Grey December 28, 2004
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ViewCVS on Gentoo Linux encounters vulnerability concerns involving data exposure and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) threats. It's advisable to perform updates to uphold security measures.
ViewCVS is vulnerable to an information leak and to cross-site scripting (XSS) issues.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200412-26 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Low Title: ViewCVS: Information leak and XSS vulnerabilities Date: December 28, 2004 Bugs: #72461, #73772 ID: 200412-26

Synopsis ======= ViewCVS is vulnerable to an information leak and to cross-site scripting (XSS) issues.
Background ========= ViewCVS is a browser interface for viewing CVS and Subversion version control repositories through a web browser.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-apps/viewcvs <= 0.9.2_p20041207 >= 0.9.2_p20041207-r1
========== The tar export functions in ViewCVS bypass the 'hide_cvsroot' and 'forbidden' settings and therefore expose information that should be kept secret (...

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