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Fedora Core 2 : subversion-1.0.4-2 (2004-166)

high Nessus Plugin ID 13720

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

A heap overflow vulnerability was discovered in the svn:// protocol handling library, libsvn_ra_svn. If using the svnserve daemon, an unauthenticated client may be able execute arbitrary code as the user the daemon runs as. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2004-0413.

This issue does not affect the mod_dav_svn module.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?03df7ae7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 13720

File Name: fedora_2004-166.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/23/2004

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mod_dav_svn, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:subversion, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:subversion-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:subversion-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:subversion-perl, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 6/11/2004

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2004-166