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56 lines
1.8 KiB
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
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<glsa id="201412-16">
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<title>CouchDB: Denial of Service</title>
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<synopsis>A vulnerability in CouchDB could result in Denial of Service.</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">couchdb</product>
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<announced>December 13, 2014</announced>
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<revised>December 13, 2014: 1</revised>
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<bug>506354</bug>
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<access>remote</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="dev-db/couchdb" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">1.5.1</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">1.5.1</vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free
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document-oriented database.
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</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>CouchDB does not properly sanitize the count parameter for Universally
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Unique Identifiers (UUID) requests.
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</p>
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</description>
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<impact type="normal">
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<p>A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to CouchDB,
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possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.
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</p>
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</impact>
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<workaround>
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<p>The /_uuids handler can be disabled in local.ini with the following
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configuration:
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</p>
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<p>[httpd_global_handlers]
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_uuids =
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</p>
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</workaround>
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<resolution>
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<p>All CouchDB users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
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<code>
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# emerge --sync
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/couchdb-1.5.1"
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</code>
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</resolution>
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<references>
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<uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-2668">CVE-2014-2668</uri>
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</references>
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<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Mon, 04 Aug 2014 19:24:09 +0000">
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keytoaster
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</metadata>
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<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sat, 13 Dec 2014 17:06:39 +0000">ackle</metadata>
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</glsa>
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