National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-3357

Overview

The SVN revision view (lib/vclib/svn/svn_repos.py) in ViewVC before 1.1.15 does not properly handle log messages when a readable path is copied from an unreadable path, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, related to a "log msg leak."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:0831

Hyperlink:https://lwn.net/Articles/505096/

External Source: XF

Name: viewvc-svnra-info-disclosure(76615)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/76615

External Source: BID

Name: 54199

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54199

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20120625 Re: CVE Request: viewvc

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/25/8

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2563

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2563

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://viewvc.tigris.org/source/browse/viewvc?view=rev&revision=2758

Hyperlink:http://viewvc.tigris.org/source/browse/viewvc?view=rev&revision=2758

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 83227

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/83227