CPANSA-Alien-SVN-2016-8734-subversion: Alien-SVN vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2017-10-16T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2017-10-16T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score 6.5 Severity Medium
Original language Language en
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Vulnerability Description

Apache Subversion's mod_dontdothat module and HTTP clients 1.4.0 through 1.8.16, and 1.9.0 through 1.9.4 are vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack caused by exponential XML entity expansion. The attack can cause the targeted process to consume an excessive amount of CPU resources or memory.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-8734

Vulnerability Description

Apache Subversion's mod_dontdothat module and HTTP clients 1.4.0 through 1.8.16, and 1.9.0 through 1.9.4 are vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack caused by exponential XML entity expansion. The attack can cause the targeted process to consume an excessive amount of CPU resources or memory.

Weakness CWE-400 : Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
Alien-SVN equal =1.7.19.0
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
3.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H 6.5 Medium
2.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P 4.0 Medium

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References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Mon Oct 16 00:00:00 2017 First release

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