Buffer over-read in MongoDB driver for C - CVE-2018-16790

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Buffer over-read in MongoDB driver for C - CVE-2018-16790

Published: October 1, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU15060
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-16790
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to heap-based buffer over-read via a specially crafted bson buffer within the bson-iter.c file (libbson library). A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack.


Affected software

MongoDB driver for C
Fedora
libbson
mongo-c-driver

How to mitigate CVE-2018-16790

Install update from vendor's website.

MongoDB driver for C - update to 1.13.0
libbson - addressed in versions 1.3.5-6.el7, 1.9.5-3.fc27, 1.9.5-3.fc28
mongo-c-driver - update to 1.13.0-1.fc29

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