Resource Exhaustion Affecting subversion package, versions <1.9.5-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.27% (68th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-SUBVERSION-344320
  • published16 Oct 2017
  • disclosed16 Oct 2017

Introduced: 16 Oct 2017

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

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable subversion to version 1.9.5-1 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:unstable 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.