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Mageia alert MGASA-2013-0244 (subversion)

From:  Mageia Updates <buildsystem-daemon@mageia.org>
To:  updates-announce@ml.mageia.org
Subject:  [updates-announce] MGASA-2013-0244: Updated subversion packages fixes security vulnerability
Date:  Sun, 11 Aug 2013 14:24:48 +0200
Message-ID:  <20130811122448.7876648418@valstar.mageia.org>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

MGASA-2013-0244 - Updated subversion packages fixes security vulnerability Publication date: 11 Aug 2013 URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0244.html Type: security Affected Mageia releases: 2, 3 CVE: CVE-2013-4131 Description: Subversion's mod_dav_svn Apache HTTPD server module will trigger an assertion on some requests made against a revision root. This can lead to a DoS. If assertions are disabled it will trigger a read overflow which may cause a SEGFAULT (or equivalent) or undefined behavior. Commit access is required to exploit this (CVE-2013-4131). References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10895 - https://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2013-4131-advi... - http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg000... - http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4131 SRPMS: - 3/core/subversion-1.7.11-1.mga3 - 2/core/subversion-1.7.11-1.mga2


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