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GLSA-201611-13 : MongoDB: Denial of Service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 95020

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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-201611-13 (MongoDB: Denial of Service)

 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.

Solution

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

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-13

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 95020

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-201611-13.nasl

Version: 3.2

Type: local

Published: 11/21/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/20/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1609

GLSA: 201611-13