Bug 706274 (CVE-2009-5024)

Summary:	CVE-2009-5024 viewvc: remote user can cause excessive CPU usage and memory consumption
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bjohnson, bojan
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	viewvc 1.1.11	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2012-08-10 18:06:42 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	706275, 706276
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Description Vincent Danen 2011-05-19 22:07:32 UTC

A bug in viewvc could allow remote users to obtain a really large request that could cause the server to use up excessive amounts of CPU and memory while processing the request [1].  This has been corrected upstream [2] in v1.1.11 [3].

This affects current versions of viewvc as provided by Fedora and EPEL.

[1] http://viewvc.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=433
[2] http://viewvc.tigris.org/source/browse/viewvc?diff_format=u&view=rev&revision=2551
[3] http://viewvc.tigris.org/source/browse/*checkout*/viewvc/tags/1.1.11/CHANGES

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2011-05-19 22:09:24 UTC

Created viewvc tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 706275]
Affects: epel-all [bug 706276]

Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2012-08-10 18:06:42 UTC

All supported versions of Fedora and EPEL currently provide viewvc 1.1.15, so this flaw has been resolved.