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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2705-1 pymongo -- denial of service

Date Reported:

10 Jun 2013

Affected Packages:

pymongo

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 710597.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-2132.

More information:

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.

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.