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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Subversion vulnerabilities (USN-4082-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 127799

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4082-1 advisory.

 Ace Olszowka discovered that Subversion incorrectly handled certain svnserve requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause svnserver to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
 (CVE-2018-11782)

 Tomas Bortoli discovered that Subversion incorrectly handled certain svnserve requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause svnserver to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
 (CVE-2019-0203)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4082-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 127799

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4082-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/12/2019

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-0203

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsvn-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ruby-svn, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsvn-perl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:subversion, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsvn-java, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapache2-svn, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapache2-mod-svn, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsvn1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:subversion-tools, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsvn-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-subversion

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/31/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/26/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-11782, CVE-2019-0203

USN: 4082-1