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TITLE:
ViewVC UTF-7 Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA22395

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22395/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
ViewVC 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/12305/

DESCRIPTION:
Stefan Esser has reported a vulnerability in ViewVC, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.

The vulnerability is caused due to the application not sending a
charset HTTP header nor specifying a charset in the HTML body. This
can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a
user's browser session in context of an affected site via UTF-7
encoded script code.

The vulnerability is reported in version 1.0.2. Prior versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.0.3.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Stefan Esser

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_102006.134.html

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