Resource Exhaustion Affecting subversion package, versions <1.8.10-6+deb8u5
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- published 16 Oct 2017
- disclosed 16 Oct 2017
Introduced: 16 Oct 2017
CVE-2016-8734 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:8
subversion
to version 1.8.10-6+deb8u5 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream subversion
package and not the subversion
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:8
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8734
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7798f5cda1b2a3c70db4be77694b12dec8fcc1a441b00009d44f0e09@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
- https://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2016-8734-advisory.txt
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3932
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94588
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037361
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-8734
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7798f5cda1b2a3c70db4be77694b12dec8fcc1a441b00009d44f0e09%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E