CVE-2009-5024

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

ViewVC

First reported 13 years ago

2011-05-23 22:55:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-08-13 21:47:00

Affected Software

ViewVC 0.8

0.8

ViewVC 0.9

0.9

ViewVC 0.9.1

0.9.1

ViewVC 0.9.2

0.9.2

ViewVC 0.9.3

0.9.3

ViewVC 0.9.4

0.9.4

ViewVC 1.0.0

1.0.0

ViewVC 1.0.1

1.0.1

ViewVC 1.0.2

1.0.2

ViewVC 1.0.3

1.0.3

ViewVC 1.0.4

1.0.4

ViewVC 1.0.5

1.0.5

ViewVC 1.0.6

1.0.6

ViewVC 1.0.7

1.0.7

ViewVC 1.0.8

1.0.8

ViewVC 1.0.9

1.0.9

ViewVC 1.0.10

1.0.10

ViewVC 1.0.11

1.0.11

ViewVC 1.1.0

1.1.0

ViewVC 1.1.1

1.1.1

ViewVC 1.1.2

1.1.2

ViewVC 1.1.3

1.1.3

ViewVC 1.1.4

1.1.4

ViewVC 1.1.5

1.1.5

ViewVC 1.1.6

1.1.6

ViewVC 1.1.7

1.1.7

ViewVC 1.1.8

1.1.8

ViewVC 1.1.9

1.1.9

References

[oss-security] 20110519 CVE Request: viewvc DoS

[oss-security] 20110519 Re: CVE Request: viewvc DoS

http://viewvc.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=433

http://viewvc.tigris.org/source/browse/checkout/viewvc/tags/1.1.11/CHANGES

http://viewvc.tigris.org/source/browse/viewvc/trunk/lib/cvsdb.py?diff_format=u&view=log#rev2547

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

Patch

DSA-2563

47928

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