Important: subversion:1.10 security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-17525   CVE-2020-17525   CVE-2020-17525  

Synopsis

Important: subversion:1.10 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for the subversion:1.10 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Subversion (SVN) is a concurrent version control system which enables one or more users to collaborate in developing and maintaining a hierarchy of files and directories while keeping a history of all changes.

Security Fix(es):

  • subversion: Remote unauthenticated denial of service in mod_authz_svn (CVE-2020-17525)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

After installing the updated packages, for the update to take effect, you must restart the httpd daemon, if you are using mod_dav_svn, and the svnserve daemon, if you are serving Subversion repositories via the svn:// protocol.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.1 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.1 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 aarch64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1922303 - CVE-2020-17525 subversion: Remote unauthenticated denial of service in mod_authz_svn

CVEs

References