CVE-2009-5024 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2009-5024 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 694785 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2011:010, published Tue, 31 May 2011 08:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SU-2011:0608-1, published

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 07:59:26 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:16:05 2025