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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 : subversion vulnerabilities (USN-1144-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55107

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Joe Schaefer discovered that the Subversion mod_dav_svn module for Apache did not properly handle certain baselined WebDAV resource requests. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause the service to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1752)

Ivan Zhakov discovered that the Subversion mod_dav_svn module for Apache did not properly handle certain requests. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause the service to consume all available resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1783)

Kamesh Jayachandran discovered that the Subversion mod_dav_svn module for Apache did not properly handle access control in certain situations. A remote user could use this flaw to gain access to files that would otherwise be unreadable. (CVE-2011-1921).

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

Solution

Update the affected libapache2-svn package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1144-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55107

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1144-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2011

Updated: 9/19/2019

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: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapache2-svn, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/6/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/6/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1752, CVE-2011-1783, CVE-2011-1921

BID: 48091

USN: 1144-1