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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200406-07

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Severity: High
Title: Subversion: Remote heap overflow
Date: June 10, 2004
ID: 200406-07

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Synopsis

Subversion is vulnerable to a remote Denial of Service that may be
exploitable to execute arbitrary code on the server running svnserve.

Background

Subversion is a revision control system that aims to be a "compelling
replacement for CVS". It enjoys wide use in the open source community.
svnserve allows access to Subversion repositories using URIs with the
svn://, svn+ssh://, and other tunelled svn+*:// protocols.

Affected packages

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 Package              /   Vulnerable   /                Unaffected
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1 dev-util/subversion <= 1.0.4 >= 1.0.4-r1

Description

The svn protocol parser trusts the indicated length of a URI string
sent by a client. This allows a client to specify a very long string,
thereby causing svnserve to allocate enough memory to hold that string.
This may cause a Denial of Service. Alternately, given a string that
causes an integer overflow in the variable holding the string length,
the server might allocate less memory than required, allowing a heap
overflow. This heap overflow may then be exploitable, allowing remote
code execution. The attacker does not need read or write access to the
Subversion repository being served, since even un-authenticated users
can send svn protocol requests.

Impact

Ranges from remote Denial of Service to potential arbitrary code
execution with privileges of the svnserve process.

Workaround

Servers without svnserve running are not vulnerable. Disable svnserve
and use DAV for access instead.

Resolution

All users should upgrade to the latest version of Subversion.

# emerge sync

# emerge -pv ">=dev-util/subversion-1.0.4-r1"
# emerge ">=dev-util/subversion-1.0.4-r1"

References

[ 1 ] CAN-2004-0413
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0413

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200406-07.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
[email protected] or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License

Copyright 2004 Gentoo Technologies, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

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