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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
Apache Software Foundation Apache Subversion
1.4.0 to 1.8.16affected1.9.0 to 1.9.4affected
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94588 ↗
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7798f5cda1b2a3c70db4be77694b12dec8fcc1a441b00009d44f0e09%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E ↗
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037361 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3932 ↗
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html ↗
- https://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2016-8734-advisory.txt ↗