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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201412-16">
+  <title>CouchDB: Denial of service</title>
+  <synopsis>A vulnerability in CouchDB could result in Denial of Service.</synopsis>
+  <product type="ebuild">couchdb</product>
+  <announced>2014-12-13</announced>
+  <revised count="1">2014-12-13</revised>
+  <bug>506354</bug>
+  <access>remote</access>
+  <affected>
+    <package name="dev-db/couchdb" auto="yes" arch="*">
+      <unaffected range="ge">1.5.1</unaffected>
+      <vulnerable range="lt">1.5.1</vulnerable>
+    </package>
+  </affected>
+  <background>
+    <p>Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free
+      document-oriented database.
+    </p>
+  </background>
+  <description>
+    <p>CouchDB does not properly sanitize the count parameter for Universally
+      Unique Identifiers (UUID) requests. 
+    </p>
+  </description>
+  <impact type="normal">
+    <p>A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to CouchDB,
+      possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.
+    </p>
+  </impact>
+  <workaround>
+    <p>The /_uuids handler can be disabled in local.ini with the following
+      configuration:
+    </p>
+    
+    <p>[httpd_global_handlers]
+      _uuids =
+    </p>
+  </workaround>
+  <resolution>
+    <p>All CouchDB users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+    
+    <code>
+      # emerge --sync
+      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-db/couchdb-1.5.1"
+    </code>
+  </resolution>
+  <references>
+    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-2668">CVE-2014-2668</uri>
+  </references>
+  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2014-08-04T19:24:09Z">
+    keytoaster
+  </metadata>
+  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-12-13T17:06:39Z">ackle</metadata>
+</glsa>