USN-3869-1: Subversion vulnerability

USN-3869-1: Subversion vulnerability

subversion vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 18.10

Summary

Subversion could be made to crash if it received a specially crafted input.

Software Description

• subversion – Advanced version control system

Details

Ivan Zhakov discovered that Subversion incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.10

libapache2-mod-svn – 1.10.0-2ubuntu2.1

libsvn1 – 1.10.0-2ubuntu2.1

subversion – 1.10.0-2ubuntu2.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2018-11803

Source: USN-3869-1: Subversion vulnerability