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Resource Exhaustion Affecting subversion-ruby package, versions <0:1.9.5-1.56.amzn1

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.27% (68th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-SUBVERSIONRUBY-1704782
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed16 Oct 2017
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Introduced: 16 Oct 2017

CVE-2016-8734  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 subversion-ruby to version 0:1.9.5-1.56.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2017-794.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream subversion-ruby package and not the subversion-ruby package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.