Debian DLA-119-1 : subversion security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 82102

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Evgeny Kotkov discovered a NULL pointer dereference while processing REPORT requests in mod_dav_svn, the Subversion component which is used to serve repositories with the Apache web server. A remote attacker could abuse this vulnerability for a denial of service.

We recommend that you upgrade your subversion packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2014/12/msg00021.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/subversion

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 82102

File Name: debian_DLA-119.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/26/2015

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: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-subversion, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsvn-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsvn-ruby, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:subversion-tools, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsvn-java, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsvn-ruby1.8, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsvn1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:subversion, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libapache2-svn, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsvn-perl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsvn-dev

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/21/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3580

BID: 71726