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:
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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.