Summary
The remote host is missing an update to subversion announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-8449.
Solution
Apply the appropriate updates.
This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use su -c 'yum update subversion' at the command line.
For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum, available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2009-8449
Insight
Update Information:
This update includes the latest stable release of Subversion, fixing many bugs and a security issue:
Matt Lewis reported multiple heap overflow flaws in Subversion (servers and clients) when parsing binary deltas. Malicious users with commit access to a vulnerable server could uses these flaws to cause a heap overflow on the server running Subversion. A malicious Subversion server could use these flaws to cause a heap overflow on vulnerable clients when they attempt to checkout or update, resulting in a crash or, possibly, arbitrary code execution on the vulnerable client. (CVE-2009-2411)
ChangeLog:
* Fri Aug 7 2009 Joe Orton 1.6.4-2
- update to 1.6.4
* Thu Jul 23 2009 Joe Orton 1.6.3-2
- remove -devel dependency on -gnome, -kde (#513313)
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-2411 -
CVSS Base Score: 8.5
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
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