Debian DLA-136-1 : websvn security update

low Nessus Plugin ID 82119

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

James Clawson discovered that websvn, a web viewer for Subversion repositories, would follow symlinks in a repository when presenting a file for download. An attacker with repository write access could thereby access any file on disk readable by the user the webserver runs as.

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 websvn package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/01/msg00010.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 82119

File Name: debian_DLA-136.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/26/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:websvn, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/24/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-6892

BID: 72301