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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS USN-6904-1 Critical: PyMongo Crash Risk

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Calendar Grey July 22, 2024
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
PyMongo vulnerability alert emphasizing potential crash and data leak threats across various Ubuntu LTS editions.
PyMongo could be made to crash or expose sensitive information if it received a crafted BSON.

Summary

PyMongo could be made to crash or expose sensitive information if it

received a crafted BSON.

Software Description:

- pymongo: Python interface to the MongoDB document-oriented database

Details:

It was discovered that PyMongo incorrectly handled certain BSON.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to read sensitive information

or cause a crash.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update Ubuntu information exposure crash risk pymongo

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  python3-bson                    3.11.0-1ubuntu0.24.04.1
  python3-bson-ext                3.11.0-1ubuntu0.24.04.1

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  python3-bson                    3.11.0-1ubuntu0.22.04.1
  python3-bson-ext                3.11.0-1ubuntu0.22.04.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  python3-bson                    3.10.1-0ubuntu2.1
  python3-bson-ext                3.10.1-0ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
  python-bson                     3.6.1+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  python-bson-ext                 3.6.1+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  python3-bson                    3.6.1+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  python3-bson-ext                3.6.1+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
  python-bson                     3.2-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  python-bson-ext                 3.2-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  python3-bson                    3.2-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  python3-bson-ext                3.2-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6904-1

CVE-2024-5629

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6904-1

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update Ubuntu information exposure crash risk pymongo

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pymongo/3.11.0-1ubuntu0.24.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pymongo/3.11.0-1ubuntu0.22.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pymongo/3.10.1-0ubuntu2.1

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