SUSE SLES12 Security Update : subversion (SUSE-SU-2025:0871-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 232753

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2025:0871-1 advisory.

- CVE-2024-46901: Fixed mod_dav_svn denial-of-service via control characters in paths (bsc#1234317)

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

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

Solution

Update the affected subversion-devel package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 232753

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0871-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/15/2025

Updated: 3/15/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-46901

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.1

Temporal Score: 2.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:subversion-devel

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/14/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/9/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-46901

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0871-1

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