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Gentoo: GLSA-201309-11 Low: Subversion DoS and Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey September 23, 2013
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The Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201309-11 warns of vulnerabilities in Subversion that could lead to privilege escalation and DoS attacks, urging users to update.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Subversion, allowing attackers to cause a Denial of Service, escalate privileges, or obtain sensitive information

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Subversion. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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security advisory denial of service subversion gentoo privilege escalation information exposure

Resolution

All Subversion users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-vcs/subversion-1.7.13"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2010-4539 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-4539 [ 2 ] CVE-2010-4644 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-4644 [ 3 ] CVE-2011-0715 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-0715 [ 4 ] CVE-2011-1752 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1752 [ 5 ] CVE-2011-1783 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1783 [ 6 ] CVE-2011-1921 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1921 [ 7 ] CVE-2013-1845 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-1845 [ 8 ] CVE-2013-1846 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-1846 [ 9 ] CVE-2013-1847 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-1847 [ 10 ] CVE-2013-1849 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-1849 [ 11 ] CVE-2013-1884 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-1884 [ 12 ] CVE-2013-1968 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-1968 [ 13 ] CVE-2013-2088 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvena...

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Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201309-11
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

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Severity: Low
Title: Subversion: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: September 23, 2013
Bugs: #350166, #356741, #369065, #463728, #463860, #472202, #482166
ID: 201309-11

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security advisory denial of service subversion gentoo privilege escalation information exposure

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Subversion, allowing attackers to cause a Denial of Service, escalate privileges, or obtain sensitive information.

Background

Subversion is a versioning system designed to be a replacement for CVS.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-vcs/subversion < 1.7.13 >= 1.7.13

Impact

===== A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition or obtain sensitive information. A local attacker could escalate his privileges to the user running svnserve.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.