CPANSA-Alien-SVN-2016-8734-subversion: Alien-SVN vulnerability
Publisher | giterlizzi | Document category | csaf_security_advisory |
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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 | |
Also referred to |
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 DescriptionApache 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 |
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Product status
Known affected
Product | Score | ||||||||||||
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Alien-SVN equal =1.7.19.0 |
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References
- CPANSA-Alien-SVN-2016-8734-subversion JSON self
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/giterlizzi/perl-CPANSA-CSAF/develop/csaf/white/2017/cpansa-alien-svn-2016-8734-subversion.json - https://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2016-8734-advisory.txt external
https://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2016-8734-advisory.txt - https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7798f5cda1b2a3c70db4be77694b12dec8fcc1a441b00009d44f0e09@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E external
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7798f5cda1b2a3c70db4be77694b12dec8fcc1a441b00009d44f0e09@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E - http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037361 external
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037361 - http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94588 external
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94588 - http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3932 external
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3932 - https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html external
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html - CVE-2016-8734 (NVD) external
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8734
Revision history
Version | Date of the revision | Summary of the revision |
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1 | Mon Oct 16 00:00:00 2017 | First release |
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