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Debian DLA-1052-1 : subversion security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 102437

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the subversion revision control system via malicious 'svn+ssh' URLs in 'svn:externals' and 'svn:sync-from-url'.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in subversion version 1.6.17dfsg-4+deb7u12.

We recommend that you upgrade your subversion packages.

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Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/08/msg00004.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/subversion

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 102437

File Name: debian_DLA-1052.nasl

Version: 3.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/14/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-subversion, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsvn-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsvn-ruby, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:subversion-tools, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsvn-java, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsvn-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsvn1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:subversion, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libapache2-svn, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsvn-perl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsvn-dev

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/11/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-9800