Fedora 21 : subversion-1.8.11-1.fc21 (2014-17118)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 80373

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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**, version **1.8.11**. Two security issues in mod_dav_svn are addressed in this release (CVE-2014-8108, CVE-2014-3580). For more details, see :

http://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2014-8108-advisory.txt http://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2014-3580-advisory.txt

**Client-side bugfixes:**

- checkout/update: fix file externals failing to follow history and subsequently silently failing http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4185

- patch: don't skip targets in valid --git difs

- diff: make property output in diffs stable

- diff: fix diff of local copied directory with props

- diff: fix changelist filter for repos-WC and WC-WC

- remove broken conflict resolver menu options that always error out

- improve gpg-agent support

- fix crash in eclipse IDE with GNOME Keyring http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=34 98

- fix externals shadowing a versioned directory http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=40 85

- fix problems working on unix file systems that don't support permissions

- upgrade: keep external registrations http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=45 19

- cleanup: iprove performance of recorded timestamp fixups

- translation updates for German

**Server-side bugfixes:**

- disable revprop caching feature due to cache invalidation problems

- skip generating uniquifiers if rep-sharing is not supported

- mod_dav_svn: reject requests with missing repository paths

- mod_dav_svn: reject requests with invalid virtual transaction names

- mod_dav_svn: avoid unneeded memory growth in resource walking http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=45 31

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: Medium

ID: 80373

File Name: fedora_2014-17118.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 1/6/2015

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: 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: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21, 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: 12/18/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3580, CVE-2014-8108

BID: 71725, 71726

FEDORA: 2014-17118

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