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Ubuntu: USN-5101-1 Critical: MongoDB Denial Of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey October 4, 2021
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5102-1 highlights a vulnerability in PostgreSQL that might cause significant memory leaks when handling malformed data packets.
MongoDB could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Summary

MongoDB could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network

traffic.

Software Description:

- mongodb: object/document-oriented database

Details:

It was discovered that MongoDB incorrectly handled certain wire protocol

messages. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause MongoDB

to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Ubuntu network issue MongoDB

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  mongodb                         1:3.6.9+really3.6.8+90~g8e540c0b6d-0ubuntu5.3
  mongodb-clients                 1:3.6.9+really3.6.8+90~g8e540c0b6d-0ubuntu5.3
  mongodb-server                  1:3.6.9+really3.6.8+90~g8e540c0b6d-0ubuntu5.3
  mongodb-server-core             1:3.6.9+really3.6.8+90~g8e540c0b6d-0ubuntu5.3

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  mongodb                         1:3.6.3-0ubuntu1.4
  mongodb-clients                 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu1.4
  mongodb-server                  1:3.6.3-0ubuntu1.4
  mongodb-server-core             1:3.6.3-0ubuntu1.4

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5101-1

CVE-2019-20925

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October 04, 2021

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Ubuntu network issue MongoDB

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mongodb/1:3.6.9+really3.6.8+90~g8e540c0b6d-0ubuntu5.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mongodb/1:3.6.3-0ubuntu1.4

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