DSA-2181-1 subversion -- denial of service

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2181-1 subversion -- denial of service

Date Reported:

04 Mar 2011

Affected Packages:

subversion

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-0715.

More information:

Philip Martin discovered that HTTP-based Subversion servers crash when processing lock requests on repositories which support unauthenticated read access.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.1dfsg1-6.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.12dfsg-5.

For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed in version 1.6.16dfsg-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your subversion packages.