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openSUSE Security Update : subversion (openSUSE-SU-2013:1836-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 75223

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes the following issues with subversion (CVE-2013-4505,CVE-2013-4558) :

 - bnc#850747: update to 1.8.5

 - CVE-2013-4505: mod_dontdothat does not restrict requests from serf clients.

 - CVE-2013-4558: mod_dav_svn assertion triggered by autoversioning commits.

 + 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_dav_svn: canonicalize paths properly

 - mod_authz_svn: fix crash of mod_authz_svn with invalid config

 - hotcopy: fix hotcopy losing revprop files in packed repos

 + Other tool improvements and bugfixes :

 - mod_dontdothat: Fix the uri parser

 + Developer-visible changes :

 - fix compilation with '--enable-optimize' with clang

 - add test to fail when built against broken ZLib

 + Bindings :

 - ctypes-python: build with compiler selected via configure

 - require python-sqlite when running regression tests for all targets, no longer pulled in implicitly

 - print error logs on regression test failures

 - fix regression tests for ppc/ppc64 architectures, found in openSUSE package build and fixed with upstream developers

 - if running regression tests, also run them against bdb backend

 - update keyring, use Subversion Project Management Committee keyring rather than all committers

Solution

Update the affected subversion packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=850667

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=850747

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00029.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 75223

File Name: openSUSE-2013-942.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:subversion-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:subversion-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:subversion-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsvn_auth_kwallet-1-0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:subversion-ruby-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:subversion-python, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:subversion-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:subversion-python-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsvn_auth_gnome_keyring-1-0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:subversion-perl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:subversion-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:subversion-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:subversion-ruby, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:subversion-perl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:subversion, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsvn_auth_gnome_keyring-1-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:subversion-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsvn_auth_kwallet-1-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:subversion-server-debuginfo

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/30/2013

Reference Information

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