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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3561-1 subversion -- security update

Date Reported:

29 Apr 2016

Affected Packages:

subversion

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-2167, CVE-2016-2168.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Subversion, a version control system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

• CVE-2016-2167

  Daniel Shahaf and James McCoy discovered that an implementation error in the authentication against the Cyrus SASL library would permit a remote user to specify a realm string which is a prefix of the expected realm string and potentially allowing a user to authenticate using the wrong realm.

• CVE-2016-2168

  Ivan Zhakov of VisualSVN discovered a remotely triggerable denial of service vulnerability in the mod_authz_svn module during COPY or MOVE authorization check. An authenticated remote attacker could take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial of service (Subversion server crash) via COPY or MOVE requests with specially crafted header.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.10-6+deb8u4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.9.4-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your subversion packages.