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GLSA-201412-16 : CouchDB: Denial of Service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79969

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Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201412-16 (CouchDB: Denial of Service)

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

Solution

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

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201412-16

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 79969

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-201412-16.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 12/15/2014

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:couchdb, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/13/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-2668

BID: 66474

GLSA: 201412-16