CVE-2009-5024

First published: Mon May 23 2011(Updated: )

ViewVC before 1.1.11 allows remote attackers to bypass the cvsdb row_limit configuration setting, and consequently conduct resource-consumption attacks, via the limit parameter, as demonstrated by a "query revision history" request.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com secalert@redhat.com

Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
Viewvc Viewvc	=1.1.6
Viewvc Viewvc	=1.0.2
Viewvc Viewvc	=1.1.7
Viewvc Viewvc	=1.0.1
Viewvc Viewvc	=1.1.5
Viewvc Viewvc	=0.8
Viewvc Viewvc	=0.9.3
Viewvc Viewvc	=1.0.5
Viewvc Viewvc	=1.1.2
Viewvc Viewvc	=0.9.2
Viewvc Viewvc	=1.0.11
Viewvc Viewvc	=1.0.9
Viewvc Viewvc	=1.1.0
Viewvc Viewvc	=1.1.1
Viewvc Viewvc	=0.9.1
Viewvc Viewvc	=1.1.4
Viewvc Viewvc	=0.9.4
Viewvc Viewvc	=1.1.8
Viewvc Viewvc	=1.0.3
Viewvc Viewvc	=1.0.4
Viewvc Viewvc	=1.0.6
Viewvc Viewvc	=1.0.8
Viewvc Viewvc	<=1.1.10
Viewvc Viewvc	=1.0.10
Viewvc Viewvc	=1.1.9
Viewvc Viewvc	=1.0.0
Viewvc Viewvc	=1.0.7
Viewvc Viewvc	=1.1.3
Viewvc Viewvc	=0.9

Remedy

http://viewvc.tigris.org/source/browse/viewvc/trunk/lib/viewvc.py?diff_format=u&r1=2547&r2=2546&pathrev=2547

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