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Gentoo: GLSA-201611-13 Standard: MongoDB Service Disruption Risk

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Calendar Grey November 21, 2016
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
MongoDB running on Gentoo faces a Denial of Service vulnerability. It's recommended to upgrade to mitigate potential risks. For further details, consult this notice.
A vulnerability in MongoDB can lead to a Denial of Service condition.

Summary

MongoDB's 'mongod' server fails to validate some cases of malformed BSON.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo threat normal mongoDB

Resolution

All MongoDB users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/mongodb-2.4.13"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2015-1609 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1609

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-13
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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: MongoDB: Denial of Service
Date: November 20, 2016
Bugs: #542880
ID: 201611-13

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo threat normal mongoDB

Synopsis

A vulnerability in MongoDB can lead to a Denial of Service condition.

Background

MongoDB (from "humongous") is a scalable, high-performance, open source, schema-free, document-oriented database.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-db/mongodb < 2.4.13 >= 2.4.13

Impact

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

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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