CVE-2013-1968 Denial of service in n/a
Remote authenticated users can cause denial of service and repository corruption in Subversion by submitting filenames with newline characters.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2013-1968?
CVE-2013-1968 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 31 Jul 2013. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Subversion before 1.6.23 and 1.7.x before 1.7.10 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (FSFS repository corruption) via a newline character in a file name.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1968?
It affects 4 products.
Products include Apache Subversion, Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Collabnet Subversion, Opensuse Opensuse.
How do I fix CVE-2013-1968?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2013-1968 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1968 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux
- CVE-2017-9800 A maliciously constructed svn+ssh:// URL would cause Subversion clients before 1.8.19, 1.9.x before 1.9.7, and 1.10.0.x through 1.10.0-alpha
- CVE-2013-4246 Denial of service in n/a
- CVE-2015-5259 Integer overflow in n/a
- CVE-2024-45720 Apache Subversion: Command line argument injection on Windows platforms
- CVE-2015-0202 Denial of service in n/a
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1968, GHSA-rx9x-73jj-929p.