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Red Hat: RHSA-2009:1203-01 Critical: Subversion Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey August 10, 2009
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Numerous vulnerabilities in Subversion addressed by Red Hat's vital advisory upgrade. Maintain your safety with this essential fix!
Updated subversion packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. This update has been rated as having important security impac...

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

Summary

Subversion (SVN) is a concurrent version control system which enables one or more users to collaborate in developing and maintaining a hierarchy of files and directories while keeping a history of all changes.
Matt Lewis, of Google, reported multiple heap overflow flaws in Subversion (server and client) when parsing binary deltas. A malicious user with commit access to a server could use these flaws to cause a heap overflow on that server. A malicious server could use these flaws to cause a heap overflow on a client when it attempts to checkout or update. These heap overflows can result in a crash or, possibly, arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2009-2411)
All Subversion users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct these issues. After installing the updated packages, the Subversion server must be restarted for the update to take effect: restart httpd if you are using mod_dav_svn, or restart svnserve if it is used.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory subversion Red Hat Enterprise Linux heap overflow security impact

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2411 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4:
Source:
i386: mod_dav_svn-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.i386.rpm subversion-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.i386.rpm subversion-debuginfo-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.i386.rpm subversion-devel-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.i386.rpm subversion-perl-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.i386.rpm
ia64: mod_dav_svn-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.ia64.rpm subversion-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.ia64.rpm subversion-debuginfo-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.ia64.rpm subversion-devel-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.ia64.rpm subversion-perl-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.ia64.rpm
ppc: mod_dav_svn-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.ppc.rpm subversion-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.ppc.rpm subversion-debuginfo-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.ppc.rpm subversion-devel-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.ppc.rpm subversion-perl-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.ppc.rpm
s390: mod_dav_svn-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.s390.rpm subversion-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.s390.rpm subversion-debuginfo-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.s390.rpm subversion-devel-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.s390.rpm subversion-perl-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.s390.rpm
s390x: mod_dav_svn-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.s390x.rpm subversion-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.s390x.rpm subversion-debuginfo-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.s390x.rpm subversion-devel-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.s390x.rpm subversion-perl-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.s390x.rpm
x86_64: mod_dav_svn-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.x86_64.rpm subversion-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.x86_64.rpm subversion-debuginfo-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.x86_64.rpm subversion-devel-1.1.4-3.el4_8.2.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2009:1203-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1203.html
Issue date: 2009-08-10

Topic

Updated subversion packages that fix multiple security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.This update has been rated as having important security impact by the RedHat Security Response Team.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory subversion Red Hat Enterprise Linux heap overflow security impact

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

514744 - CVE-2009-2411 subversion: multiple heap overflow issues

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