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CVE-2013-4277

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2013-09-02	svnserve is vulnerable to a local privilege escalation vulnerability via symlink attack.

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CVE-2013-4277 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2013-4277
Phase	Assigned(20130612)

Description

Svnserve in Apache Subversion 1.4.0 through 1.7.12 and 1.8.0 through 1.8.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files or kill arbitrary processes via a symlink attack on the file specified by the --pid-file option.

References

Source	Reference
CONFIRM	http://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2013-4277-advisory.txt
SUSE	openSUSE-SU-2013:1442
SUSE	openSUSE-SU-2013:1485
BID	62266
OVAL	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18554
XF	apache-subversion-cve20134277-symlink(86972)