CVE - CVE-2016-8734

CVE-ID
CVE-2016-8734	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
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.
References
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MLIST:[announce] 20161129 [SECURITY] Apache Subversion 1.9.5 released URL:https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7798f5cda1b2a3c70db4be77694b12dec8fcc1a441b00009d44f0e09@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E CONFIRM:https://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2016-8734-advisory.txt DEBIAN:DSA-3932 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3932 BID:94588 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94588 SECTRACK:1037361 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037361
Assigning CNA
Apache Software Foundation
Date Entry Created
20161018	Disclaimer: The entry creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20161018)
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Comments (Legacy)

Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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