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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-2167: subversion Security issues

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
May 5, 2016
Added
Aug 30, 2017
Modified
Oct 30, 2017

Description

The canonicalize_username function in svnserve/cyrus_auth.c in Apache Subversion before 1.8.16 and 1.9.x before 1.9.4, when Cyrus SASL authentication is used, allows remote attackers to authenticate and bypass intended access restrictions via a realm string that is a prefix of an expected repository realm string.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-subversion
Title
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