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From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: gitweb security hole (CVE-2010-3906)
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Msg-id AANLkTikstDX-cL17KzG9KM5KffeRf6hCibAmmNY+U9vY@mail.gmail.com
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In response to gitweb security hole (CVE-2010-3906)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 21:07, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.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
remoteattacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary HTML or scripting code by providing a certain URL with
specially-craftedvalues 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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