Security update for subversion

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:0776-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12

An update that solves three vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Description:

Apache Subversion was updated to fix three vulnerabilities.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed:

  • Subversion HTTP servers with FSFS repositories were vulnerable to a remotely triggerable excessive memory use with certain REPORT requests. (bsc#923793 CVE-2015-0202)
  • Subversion mod_dav_svn and svnserve were vulnerable to a remotely triggerable assertion DoS vulnerability for certain requests with dynamically evaluated revision numbers. (bsc#923794 CVE-2015-0248)
  • Subversion HTTP servers allow spoofing svn:author property values for new revisions (bsc#923795 CVE-2015-0251)

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2015-172=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • subversion-perl-debuginfo-1.8.10-12.1
    • libsvn_auth_kwallet-1-0-1.8.10-12.1
    • libsvn_auth_gnome_keyring-1-0-1.8.10-12.1
    • subversion-debugsource-1.8.10-12.1
    • subversion-python-1.8.10-12.1
    • subversion-tools-debuginfo-1.8.10-12.1
    • libsvn_auth_kwallet-1-0-debuginfo-1.8.10-12.1
    • subversion-tools-1.8.10-12.1
    • subversion-server-debuginfo-1.8.10-12.1
    • subversion-perl-1.8.10-12.1
    • subversion-debuginfo-1.8.10-12.1
    • libsvn_auth_gnome_keyring-1-0-debuginfo-1.8.10-12.1
    • subversion-1.8.10-12.1
    • subversion-server-1.8.10-12.1
    • subversion-python-debuginfo-1.8.10-12.1
    • subversion-devel-1.8.10-12.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 (noarch)
    • subversion-bash-completion-1.8.10-12.1

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