Fedora 18 : subversion-1.7.14-1.fc18 (2013-22313)

low Nessus Plugin ID 71327

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update includes the latest stable release of Apache Subversion 1.7, version 1.7.14. Two security fixes are included :

mod_dontdothat allows you to block update REPORT requests against certain paths in the repository. It expects the paths in the REPORT request to be absolute URLs. Serf based clients send relative URLs instead of absolute URLs in many cases. As a result these clients are not blocked as configured by mod_dontdothat. (CVE-2013-4505)

When SVNAutoversioning is enabled via 'SVNAutoversioning on' commits can be made by single HTTP requests such as MKCOL and PUT. If Subversion is built with assertions enabled any such requests that have non-canonical URLs, such as URLs with a trailing /, may trigger an assert. An assert will cause the Apache process to abort.
(CVE-2013-4558)

Other bug fixes included in this update are as follows :

Client- and server-side bugfixes :

- fix assertion on urls of the form 'file://./'

Client-side bugfixes :

- upgrade: fix an assertion when used with pre-1.3 wcs

- fix externals that point at redirected locations

- diff: fix incorrect calculation of changes in some cases

- diff: fix errors with added/deleted targets

Server-side bugfixes :

- mod_dav_svn: Prevent crashes with some 3rd party modules

- fix OOM on concurrent requests at threaded server start

- fsfs: limit commit time of files with deep change histories

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 71327

File Name: fedora_2013-22313.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 12/11/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:subversion, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/29/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4505, CVE-2013-4558

BID: 63966, 63981

FEDORA: 2013-22313

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