Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200903-20

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Severity: Normal
Title: WebSVN: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: March 09, 2009
Bugs: #243852
ID: 200903-20

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities in WebSVN allow for file overwrite and
information disclosure.

Background

WebSVN is a web-based browsing tool for Subversion repositories written
in PHP.

Affected packages

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1 www-apps/websvn < 2.1.0 >= 2.1.0

Description

• James Bercegay of GulfTech Security reported a Cross-site scripting
  (XSS) vulnerability in the getParameterisedSelfUrl() function in
  index.php (CVE-2008-5918) and a directory traversal vulnerability in
  rss.php when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled (CVE-2008-5919).

• Bas van Schaik reported that listing.php does not properly enforce
  access restrictions when using an SVN authz file to authenticate
  users (CVE-2009-0240).

Impact

A remote attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities to overwrite
arbitrary files, to read changelogs or diffs for restricted projects
and to hijack a user's session.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All WebSVN users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/websvn-2.1.0"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2008-5918
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5918
[ 2 ] CVE-2008-5919
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5919
[ 3 ] CVE-2009-0240
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0240

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-20.xml

Concerns?

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confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
[email protected] or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

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