openSUSE Security Update : subversion (openSUSE-2015-289)

high Nessus Plugin ID 82635

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Apache Subversion was updated to 1.8.13 to fix three vulnerabilities and a number of non-security bugs.

This release fixes three vulnerabilities :

- Subversion HTTP servers with FSFS repositories were vulnerable to a remotely triggerable excessive memory use with certain REPORT requests. (bsc#923793 CVE-2015-0202)

- Subversion mod_dav_svn and svnserve were vulnerable to a remotely triggerable assertion DoS vulnerability for certain requests with dynamically evaluated revision numbers. (bsc#923794 CVE-2015-0248)

- Subversion HTTP servers allow spoofing svn:author property values for new revisions (bsc#923795 CVE-2015-0251)

Non-security fixes :

- fixes number of client and server side non-security bugs

- improved working copy performance

- reduction of resource use

- stability improvements

- usability improvements

- fix sample configuration comments in subversion.conf [boo#916286]

- fix bashisms in mailer-init.sh script

Solution

Update the affected subversion packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=916286

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=923793

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=923794

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=923795

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 82635

File Name: openSUSE-2015-289.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/8/2015

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:subversion-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:subversion-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:subversion-python-ctypes, 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, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2, 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: 3/31/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0202, CVE-2015-0248, CVE-2015-0251