GLSA 201611-13: MongoDB: Denial of Service

Severity:normal
Title:MongoDB: Denial of Service
Date:11/20/2016
Bugs: #542880
ID:201611-13

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.

Affected packages

Package Vulnerable Unaffected Architecture(s)
dev-db/mongodb < 2.4.13 >= 2.4.13 All supported architectures

Description

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

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.

Resolution

All MongoDB users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/mongodb-2.4.13"
    

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201611-13.xml

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.

License

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Thank you!