Check Point Advisories

Subversion svn Protocol String Parsing (CVE-2004-0413)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2004-151
Date Published:	4 Feb 2010
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Sunday 14 February, 2016
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2004-0413
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	Subversion is a revision control system that handles svn protocol requests. A specially crafted svn request could cause svnserve, the daemon that handles svn protocol requests, to allocate insufficient heap memory and overflow the heap. It is possible for a malicious attacker to run arbitrary code on the Subversion server with the privilege of the account that runs svnserve daemon. In case of a shell code exploit, the actual behavior of Subversion is dependant on the intender purpose of the injected shell code.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Subversion svn Protocol String Parsing protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name: Application Servers Protection Violation.
Attack Information: Subversion svn protocol string parsing