Bug 1200446 (CVE-2015-1609)

Summary:	CVE-2015-1609 mongodb: DoS due to improper BSON validation
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Martin Prpič <mprpic>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	abaron, admiller, apevec, bkearney, bleanhar, bretm, cbillett, ccoleman, chrisw, cpelland, dallan, dmcphers, gkotton, gmollett, hhorak, jialiu, jim, johan.o.hedin, jokerman, jorton, katello-bugs, lhh, lmeyer, lpeer, markmc, mmaslano, mmccomas, mmccune, nathaniel, rbryant, sclewis, srevivo, strobert, tdawson, tomckay
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	mongodb 2.4.13, mongodb 2.6.8, mongodb 3.0.0-rc9, mongodb 3.1.0	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the way MongoDB processed certain BSON-serialized UTF-8 strings. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to crash a mongod server via a specially crafted BSON message.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2021-10-21 00:44:01 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1200447, 1200448, 1200449
Bug Blocks:	1200450

Description Martin Prpič 2015-03-10 15:14:42 UTC

It was found that the mongod server did not correctly validate certain malformed BSON requests. A remote, unauthenticated  attacker could use a specially crafted BSON message to crash a mongod server.

Upstream issue:

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-17264

Upstream patches:

2.4 -- https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/3a7e85ea1f672f702660e5472566234b1d19038e
2.6 -- https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/8f1c734c7f1862180f607c241fb167640889efba
3.0 -- https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/5285225e71c5c0652520ef99d0ae4ca24655f72f

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-03-10 15:15:43 UTC

Created mongodb tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1200447]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1200448]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1200449]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2015-03-21 05:01:20 UTC

mongodb-2.6.8-1.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2015-03-29 04:57:06 UTC

mongodb-2.4.13-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2015-04-10 19:15:46 UTC

mongodb-2.4.13-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.