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:
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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.