SB2013081502 - Denial of service in PyMongo
Published: August 15, 2013 Updated: October 14, 2024
Security Bulletin ID
SB2013081502
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Partial DoS
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2013-2132)
CWE-ID: CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error within the bson/_cbsonmodule. A remote attacker can trigger denial of service conditions via vectors related to decoding of an "invalid DBRef."
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/60252
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00180.html
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=710597
- http://www.osvdb.org/93804
- https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver/commit/a060c15ef87e0f0e72974c7c0e57fe811bbd06a2
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1897-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2705
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q2/447
- https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/PYTHON-532