Gentoo: 200908-05 High: Subversion Remote Code Execution Risk
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August 18, 2009
Multiple integer overflows, leading to heap-based buffer overflows in the Subversion client and server might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200908-05
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: Subversion: Remote execution of arbitrary code
Date: August 18, 2009
Bugs: #280494
ID: 200908-05
Synopsis
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Multiple integer overflows, leading to heap-based buffer overflows in
the Subversion client and server might allow remote attackers to
execute arbitrary code.
Background
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Subversion is a versioning system designed to be a replacement for CVS.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 dev-util/subversion < 1.6.4 >= 1.6.4
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Matt Lewis of Google reported multiple integer overflows in the
libsvn_delta library, possibly leading to...
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