USN-5445-1: Subversion vulnerabilities

26 May 2022

Several security issues were fixed in subversion.

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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. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (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. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-0203)

Thomas Åkesson discovered that Subversion incorrectly handled certain
inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of
service. (CVE-2020-17525)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04

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

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