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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2705-1 (pymongo - denial of service)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Jibbers McGee discovered that PyMongo, a high-performance schema-free document-oriented data store, is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability. An attacker can remotely trigger a NULL pointer dereference causing MongoDB to crash. The oldstable distribution (squeeze) is not affected by this issue.
Affected Software
Affected Software
pymongo on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.2-4+deb7u1. For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.2-1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.2-1. We recommend that you upgrade your pymongo packages.