Fedora 27 CouchDB Update - Security Advisory For Privilege Escalation

Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free

document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API.

Among other features, it provides robust, incremental replication

with bi-directional conflict detection and resolution, and is

queryable and indexable using a table-oriented view engine with

JavaScript acting as the default view definition language.

* CouchDB ver. 1.7.1 * Fixed CVE-2017-12635 * Fixed CVE-2017-12636 * Switched to

eunit for testing * Erlang 20 compatible

[ 1 ] Bug #1516980 - CVE-2017-12636 couchdb: OS Command injection as couchdb user via remote configuration options

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1516980

[ 2 ] Bug #1516979 - CVE-2017-12635 couchdb: Privilege escalation via _users documents with duplicate keys for 'roles'

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1516979

su -c 'dnf upgrade couchdb' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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