Fedora 20 : subversion-1.8.5-2.fc20 (2013-22575)

low Nessus Plugin ID 71775

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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 1.8, version 1.8.5. 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 fixes included in this update are as follows :

Client-side bugfixes :

- fix externals that point at redirected locations

- diff: fix assertion with move inside a copy

Server-side bugfixes :

- mod_dav_svn: Prevent crashes with some 3rd party modules

- mod_authz_svn: fix crash of mod_authz_svn with invalid config

- hotcopy: fix hotcopy losing revprop files in packed repos

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: 71775

File Name: fedora_2013-22575.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 1/2/2014

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: 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: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20, 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: 12/2/2013

Reference Information

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

BID: 63966, 63981

FEDORA: 2013-22575

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