ubuntu · CVE-2016-8734

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Priority: low Published: 2016-11-30 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:12:45 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-8734 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (subversion), 14 status rows across 14 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 9, released 3, ignored 2.

Description:

Apache 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.

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