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Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 11:09:43 -0500 (EST)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Kurt Seifried <kurt@...fried.org>,
        "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
        Joe Orton <jorton@...hat.com>,
        Subversion Development <dev@...version.apache.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request for subversion

----- Original Message -----
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello Kurt, Josh, vendors,
> >
> > Josh Bressers wrote:
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>
> >>> Unspecified vulnerability in the server component in Apache
> >>> Subversion
> >>> 1.6.x before 1.6.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
> >>> service via unknown vectors, related to a "several bug fixes,
> >>> including two which can cause client-initiated crashes on the
> >>> server."
> >>>
> >>> [1] http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2010-11/0475.shtml
> >
> >  Cc-ed Hyrum to shed more light into this one. [1] mentions two
> >  issues:
> > <begin quote>
> > ...
> > several bug fixes, including two which can cause client-initiated
> > crashes on the server.
> > </end quote>
> >
> > Further look at:
> > [2] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/tags/1.6.15/CHANGES
> >
> > suggest:
> >
> > A, "* prevent crash in mod_dav_svn when using SVNParentPath
> > (r1033166)"
> > being the first one.
> >   Upstream changeset:
> >   http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1033166
> >
> > and after discussion with Joe Orton, Joe suggested:
> >
> > B, * fix server-side memory leaks triggered by 'blame -g' (r1032808)
> >   References:
> >   http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2010-11/0102.shtml
> >   Upstream changeset:
> >   http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1032808
> >
> >   being the second one as denial of service attack (by memory
> >   consumption)
> > against
> >   svnserve.
> >
> > Questions:
> > ----------
> > Hyrum, could you confirm A, and B, issues are those two, mentioned
> > in [2]
> > to be able to cause client-initiated crashes on the server?
> 
> I can confirm that A and B are the two issues mentioned in [2].
> 
> >> I admit, this isn't obvious, so let's use CVE-2010-4539 for now.
> >> We can split it if needed once more information is known.
> >
> > Josh, since CVE-2010-4539 was assigned. Once Hyrum confirms, can
> > we consider CVE-2010-4539 to be a CVE identifier for A, issue
> > and request yet another / second one for B, issue?
> 
> We didn't initially reserve CVEs for these vulnerabilities, but will
> be happy to update our documentation to reflect them. (See
> http://subversion.apache.org/security/ ) The two issues really are
> orthogonal, so B should probably not be included in a CVE for A.
> 
> I've CC'd dev@...version.apache.org to help coordinate advisory
> authoring.
> 

OK, let's split the CVE id then.

So for 
A, "* prevent crash in mod_dav_svn when using SVNParentPath (r1033166)"
  Upstream changeset:
  http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1033166

Let's use CVE-2010-4539.

For 
B, * fix server-side memory leaks triggered by 'blame -g' (r1032808)
  References:
  http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2010-11/0102.shtml
  Upstream changeset:
  http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1032808

Let's use CVE-2010-4644.

Thanks.

-- 
    JB

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