DSA-3231-1 subversion -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3231-1 subversion -- security update

Date Reported:

21 Apr 2015

Affected Packages:

subversion

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-0248, CVE-2015-0251.

More information:

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

• CVE-2015-0248

  Subversion mod_dav_svn and svnserve were vulnerable to a remotely triggerable assertion DoS vulnerability for certain requests with dynamically evaluated revision numbers.

• CVE-2015-0251

  Subversion HTTP servers allow spoofing svn:author property values for new revisions via specially crafted v1 HTTP protocol request sequences.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.6.17dfsg-4+deb7u9.

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

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.10-6.

We recommend that you upgrade your subversion packages.