| Name | CVE-2015-1609 |
| Description | MongoDB before 2.4.13 and 2.6.x before 2.6.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted UTF-8 string in a BSON request. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 780129 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| mongodb (PTS) | jessie | 1:2.4.10-5+deb8u1 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 1:3.2.11-2+deb9u2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| mongodb | source | squeeze | (not affected) | | | |
| mongodb | source | wheezy | (not affected) | | | |
| mongodb | source | (unstable) | 1:2.4.10-5 | | | 780129 |
Notes
[wheezy] - mongodb <not-affected> (BSONElement::validate() checks length, problematic code introduced later)
[squeeze] - mongodb <not-affected> (BSONElement::validate() checks length (db/jsobj.cpp +589))
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-17264
Fast bson validate introduced with https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/6889d1658136c753998b4a408dc8d1a3ec28e3b9 (r2.3.2)