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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3572-1 websvn -- security update

Date Reported:

09 May 2016

Affected Packages:

websvn

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-1236.

More information:

Nitin Venkatesh discovered that websvn, a web viewer for Subversion repositories, is susceptible to cross-site scripting attacks via specially crafted file and directory names in repositories.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.3-1.2+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your websvn packages.