Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Subversion vulnerabilities (USN-5445-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 161576

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5445-1 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. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (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. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-0203)

Thomas kesson discovered that Subversion incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-17525)

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-5445-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 161576

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5445-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/26/2022

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-17525

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ruby-svn, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-: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-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/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/26/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/25/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-11782, CVE-2019-0203, CVE-2020-17525

USN: 5445-1