Reachable Assertion in Subversion - CVE-2018-11782

 

Reachable Assertion in Subversion - CVE-2018-11782

Published: July 31, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU19589
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-11782
CWE-ID: CWE-617
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a reachable assertion when handling svnserve 'get-deleted-rev' requests. A remote authenticated attacker with read-only permissions can make the server to reply with incorrect revision number that will lead to svnserve crash.


Affected software

Subversion
ProSafe-RS
CENTUM VP Entry Class
CENTUM VP
B/M9000 VP
Arch Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Opensuse
Ubuntu
Fedora
subversion (Red Hat package)
subversion (Debian package)
subversion (Alpine package)
subversion (Ubuntu package)
libsvn1 (Ubuntu package)
libapache2-mod-svn (Ubuntu package)
subversion
IBM QRadar Network Security
cflinuxfs3
Isolation Segment
VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs

How to mitigate CVE-2018-11782

Install updates from vendor's website.

Subversion - addressed in versions 1.9.12, 1.10.6, 1.12.2
ProSafe-RS - update to R4.06.00
CENTUM VP Entry Class - update to R6.08.00
CENTUM VP - update to R6.08.00
subversion (Red Hat package) - update to 1.7.14-16.el7
subversion (Debian package) - addressed in versions 1.9.5-1+deb9u4, 1.10.4-1+deb10u1
subversion (Alpine package) - update to 1.9.12-r0
subversion (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1.9.3-2ubuntu1.3, 1.9.7-4ubuntu1.1, 1.13.0-3ubuntu0.2
IBM QRadar Network Security - addressed in versions 5.4.0.13, 5.5.0.8
cflinuxfs3 - update to 0.300.0
libsvn1 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1.9.7-4ubuntu1.1, 1.13.0-3ubuntu0.2
libapache2-mod-svn (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1.9.7-4ubuntu1.1, 1.13.0-3ubuntu0.2
subversion - update to 1.12.2-1.fc30
Isolation Segment - addressed in versions 2.7.45, 2.10.25, 2.11.14, 2.12.10
VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs - addressed in versions 2.7.50, 2.10.32, 2.11.20, 2.12.15, 2.13.5

External References

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