<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201611-13"> <title>MongoDB: Denial of service</title> <synopsis>A vulnerability in MongoDB can lead to a Denial of Service condition. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">mongodb</product> <announced>2016-11-20</announced> <revised count="1">2016-11-20</revised> <bug>542880</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="dev-db/mongodb" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">2.4.13</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">2.4.13</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>MongoDB (from “humongous”) is a scalable, high-performance, open source, schema-free, document-oriented database. </p> </background> <description> <p>MongoDB’s ‘mongod’ server fails to validate some cases of malformed BSON. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p>A remote attacker could send a specially crafted BSON request possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All MongoDB users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/mongodb-2.4.13" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1609">CVE-2015-1609</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2015-05-11T20:38:27Z">K_F</metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-11-20T22:09:15Z">b-man</metadata> </glsa>