Re: gitweb security hole (CVE-2010-3906)

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: gitweb security hole (CVE-2010-3906)
Date: 2011-01-03 20:11:41
Message-ID: AANLkTikstDX-cL17KzG9KM5KffeRf6hCibAmmNY+U9vY@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 21:07, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Just read this on the Fedora update feed:
>
>> Update to 1.7.3.4 release which fixes various issues, notably:
>>
>> * cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the web interface of Git distributed revision control system. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary HTML or scripting code by providing a certain URL with specially-crafted values of f and fp variables. (CVE-2010-3906)
>
> Not sure if that impacts the PG gitweb server, but seems like it merits
> prompt investigation.

Probably does, will investigate and upgrade.

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