| Name | CVE-2016-8734 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| subversion (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 1.14.1-3+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1.14.2-4 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1.14.4-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| subversion | source | jessie | 1.8.10-6+deb8u5 | | | |
| subversion | source | (unstable) | 1.9.5-1 | low | | |
Notes
[wheezy] - subversion <no-dsa> (Minor issue, binary packages not affected since built against Neon as HTTP library)
Above wheezy entry workarounded; binary packages not affected (since in wheezy build against Neon as HTTP
library), though source is. (unimporant) for individual lines is not supported, thus workaround by marking
as no-dsa.
https://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2016-8734-advisory.txt