USN-4082-2: Subversion vulnerabilities

31 July 2019

Subversion could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

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Details

USN-4082-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Subversion. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

Ace Olszowka discovered that Subversion incorrectly handled certain
svnserve requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause svnserver to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2018-11782)

Tomas Bortoli discovered that Subversion incorrectly handled certain
svnserve requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause svnserver to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2019-0203)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04

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

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