gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201711-16.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201711-16">
  <title>CouchDB: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in CouchDB, the worst of
    which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary shell commands.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">couchdb</product>
  <announced>2017-11-19</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-11-19</revised>
  <bug>637516</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-db/couchdb" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.7.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.7.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free
      document-oriented database.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in CouchDB. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could execute arbitrary shell commands or escalate
      privileges.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All CouchDB users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-db/couchdb-1.7.1"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-12635">
      CVE-2017-12635
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-12636">
      CVE-2017-12636
    </uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-11-18T03:44:29Z">jmbailey</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-11-19T20:49:32Z">jmbailey</metadata>
</glsa>