SUSE SLED10 Security Update : subversion (SUSE-SU-2013:1217-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 83592

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update of subversion fixes two potential DoS vulnerabilities (bug#821505, CVE-2013-1968, CVE-2013-2112).

Server-side bugfixes :

- fix FSFS repository corruption due to newline in filename (issue #4340)
- fix svnserve exiting when a client connection is aborted (r1482759) Other tool improvements and bugfixes :

- fix argument processing in contrib hook scripts (r1485350)

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

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Studio Onsite 1.3 :

zypper in -t patch slestso13-subversion-7930

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp3-subversion-7933

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp2-subversion-7930

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?501be5d2

http://www.nessus.org/u?e80f83c7

http://www.nessus.org/u?f32d4b52

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1968.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2112.html

https://bugzilla.novell.com/821505

http://www.nessus.org/u?68bac0d0

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 83592

File Name: suse_SU-2013-1217-1.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/20/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:10, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:subversion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:subversion-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/17/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1968, CVE-2013-2112

BID: 60264, 60267