Debian: DSA-2705-1: pymongo security update

Jibbers McGee discovered that pymongo, a high-performance schema-free document-oriented data store, is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability. An attacker can remotely trigger a NULL pointer dereference causing MongoDB

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2705-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
http://www.debian.org/security/                         Giuseppe Iuculano
June 10, 2013                          http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : pymongo
Vulnerability  : denial of service
Problem type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID         : CVE-2013-2132
Debian Bug     : 710597

Jibbers McGee discovered that pymongo, a high-performance schema-free
document-oriented data store, is prone to a denial-of-service
vulnerability.
An attacker can remotely trigger a NULL pointer dereference causing MongoDB
to crash.


The oldstable distribution (squeeze), is not affected by this issue.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2-4+deb7u1.

For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.5.2-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.5.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your pymongo packages.

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