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Resource Exhaustion Affecting subversion package, versions <1.9.5-1

low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.38% (73rd percentile)
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NVD
6.5 medium
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Red Hat
4.4 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-SUBVERSION-344315
  • published 16 Oct 2017
  • disclosed 16 Oct 2017
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Introduced: 16 Oct 2017

CVE-2016-8734 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-400 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 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:9 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.