Fix a case where an html link can be generated from unescaped input
resulting in invalid strict xhtml or potentially injected code.

An overview of a repo with a tag "1.0.0&0.0.1" would previously result
in an unescaped amperstand in the link body.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Brauchli <a.brauc...@elementarea.net>
---
 gitweb/gitweb.perl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 2fddf75..33d701d 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -2090,7 +2090,7 @@ sub format_ref_marker {
                                -href => href(
                                        action=>$dest_action,
                                        hash=>$dest
-                               )}, $name);
+                               )}, esc_html($name));

                        $markers .= " <span
class=\"".esc_attr($class)."\" title=\"".esc_attr($ref)."\">" .
                                $link . "</span>";
-- 
2.7.4
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