Debian Security Advisory

DSA-605-1 viewcvs -- settings not honored

Date Reported:

06 Dec 2004

Affected Packages:

viewcvs

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0915.

More information:

Haris Sehic discovered several vulnerabilities in viewcvs, a utility for viewing CVS and Subversion repositories via HTTP. When exporting a repository as a tar archive the hide_cvsroot and forbidden settings were not honoured enough.

When upgrading the package for woody, please make a copy of your /etc/viewcvs/viewcvs.conf file if you have manually edited this file. Upon upgrade the debconf mechanism may alter it in a way so that viewcvs doesn't understand it anymore.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.2-4woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.2+cvs.1.0.dev.2004.07.28-1.2.

We recommend that you upgrade your viewcvs package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/viewcvs/viewcvs_0.9.2-4woody1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/viewcvs/viewcvs_0.9.2-4woody1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/viewcvs/viewcvs_0.9.2.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/viewcvs/viewcvs_0.9.2-4woody1_all.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.