Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 : pymongo vulnerability (USN-1897-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 67188

Synopsis

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

Description

Jibbers McGee discovered that PyMongo incorrectly handled certain invalid DBRefs. An attacker could use this issue to cause PyMongo to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

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Solution

Update the affected python-bson and / or python-bson-ext packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1897-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 67188

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1897-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/5/2013

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-bson, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-bson-ext, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/3/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/15/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2132

BID: 60252

USN: 1897-1