Bug 2290585 (CVE-2024-5629)

Summary:	CVE-2024-5629 python-pymongo: Out-of-bounds read in bson module
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Marco Benatto <mbenatto>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	athomas, bbuckingham, bcourt, eglynn, ehelms, ggainey, jjoyce, jschluet, jsherril, juwatts, lhh, lsvaty, lzap, mburns, mgarciac, mhulan, mmagr, nmoumoul, orabin, pcreech, pgrist, rchan, rhos-maint, smallamp
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	pymongo 4.6.3	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the bson module contained in the python-pymongo package. A malformed BSON file may trigger an exception, leading to a denial of service and eventually sensitive memory data exposure.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2290587, 2290588, 2290589, 2290595, 2290596, 2290597
Bug Blocks:	2290586

Description Marco Benatto 2024-06-05 17:25:38 UTC

An out-of-bounds read in the 'bson' module of PyMongo 4.6.2 or earlier allows deserialization of malformed BSON provided by a Server to raise an exception which may contain arbitrary application memory.

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/PYTHON-4305

Comment 1 Marco Benatto 2024-06-05 17:50:02 UTC

Created python-pdfminer tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2290589]


Created python-pymongo tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 2290588]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2290587]

Comment 4 Marco Benatto 2024-06-05 19:20:57 UTC

Upstream commit for this issue:
https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver/commit/56b6b6dbc267d365d97c037082369dabf37405d2

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2025-06-03 01:57:34 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2025:8419 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:8419