Debian DLA-2646-1 : subversion security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 149246

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

One security issue has been discovered in subversion :

CVE-2020-17525 :

Subversion's mod_authz_svn module will crash if the server is using in-repository authz rules with the AuthzSVNReposRelativeAccessFile option and a client sends a request for a non-existing repository URL.
This can lead to disruption for users of the service.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 1.9.5-1+deb9u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your subversion packages.

For the detailed security status of subversion please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/subversion

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://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/subversion

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00000.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/subversion

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 149246

File Name: debian_DLA-2646.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/4/2021

Updated: 1/12/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-17525

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libapache2-mod-svn, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsvn-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsvn-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsvn-java, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsvn-perl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsvn1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-subversion, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ruby-svn, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:subversion, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:subversion-tools, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/4/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/17/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-17525