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<?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 "&gt;=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>