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Amazon Linux AMI : subversion (ALAS-2014-318)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 73237

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.

Description

A flaw was found in the way the mod_dav_svn module handled OPTIONS requests. A remote attacker with read access to an SVN repository served via HTTP could use this flaw to cause the httpd process that handled such a request to crash.

The get_resource function in repos.c in the mod_dav_svn module in Apache Subversion before 1.7.15 and 1.8.x before 1.8.6, when SVNListParentPath is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to the server root and request methods other than GET, as demonstrated by the 'svn ls http://svn.example.com' command.

Solution

Run 'yum update subversion' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2014-318.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 73237

File Name: ala_ALAS-2014-318.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/28/2014

Updated: 4/18/2018

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:subversion-libs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:subversion-debuginfo, cpe:/o:amazon:linux, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:subversion-ruby, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:subversion-javahl, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:subversion-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:mod_dav_svn, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:subversion-perl, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:subversion-tools, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:subversion-python, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:subversion

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/25/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0032

ALAS: 2014-318