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Gentoo: GLSA-201412-16 Moderate: CouchDB Denial of Service Risk

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A security flaw in CouchDB may result in remote Denial of Service on Gentoo platforms. It is advised to perform upgrades for protection.
A vulnerability in CouchDB could result in Denial of Service.

Summary

CouchDB does not properly sanitize the count parameter for Universally Unique Identifiers (UUID) requests.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Denial of Service Gentoo Linux normal severity CouchDB

Resolution

All CouchDB users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/couchdb-1.5.1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-2668 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-2668

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201412-16
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: CouchDB: Denial of Service
Date: December 13, 2014
Bugs: #506354
ID: 201412-16

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Topics Covered

security advisory Denial of Service Gentoo Linux normal severity CouchDB

Synopsis

A vulnerability in CouchDB could result in Denial of Service.

Background

Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-db/couchdb < 1.5.1 >= 1.5.1

Impact

===== A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to CouchDB, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

The /_uuids handler can be disabled in local.ini with the following configuration: [httpd_global_handlers] _uuids