Update of viewvc from 1.1-dev to 1.1.3 to fix security issues?

Philip M. Gollucci pgollucci at p6m7g8.com
Sun Jan 17 05:37:47 UTC 2010


On 1/13/2010 10:38 AM, Bruce Cran wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Having recently setup a ViewVC server myself, I noticed that
> http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc is still reporting that it's using
> version 1.1-dev, which I presume is a version from before 1.1.0?
> 
> Version 1.1.3 was released just before Christmas and fixed a couple of
> new security issues. I don't know what configuration is being used, but
> if you're running a version before 1.1.2 you might want to consider
> upgrading since they have an XSS flaw.
> 
> Regards,
> Bruce Cran
> 
IIRC, you can disable the 'views' in the viewvc.conf to work around that
without upgrading. but he I like upgrading.

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