Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-8734: subversion unrestricted XML entity expansion in mod_dontdothat and Subversion clients using http//
4
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
01/09/2017
07/25/2018
09/20/2017
12/04/2019
Description
Apache Subversion's mod_dontdothat module and HTTP clients 1.4.0 through 1.8.16, and 1.9.0 through 1.9.4 are vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack caused by exponential XML entity expansion. The attack can cause the targeted process to consume an excessive amount of CPU resources or memory.
Solution(s)
- alpine-linux-upgrade-subversion
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