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Fedora 15 : subversion-1.6.16-1.fc15 (2011-3775)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 52985

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the mod_dav_svn module processed certain requests to lock working copy paths in a repository. A remote attacker could issue a lock request that could cause the httpd process serving the request to crash. (CVE-2011-0715)

The Fedora Project would like to thank Hyrum Wright of the Apache Subversion project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Philip Martin, WANdisco, Inc. as the original reporter.

Several bugs are also fixed in this update :

 - more improvement to the 'blame -g' memory leak from 1.6.15

 - avoid unnecessary globbing for performance

 - don't add tree conflicts when one already exists

 - fix potential crash when requesting mergeinfo

 - don't attempt to resolve prop conflicts in 'merge
 --dry-run'

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected subversion package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680755

http://www.nessus.org/u?862342ed

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 52985

File Name: fedora_2011-3775.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/27/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:subversion

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/22/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0715

BID: 46734

FEDORA: 2011-3775