DSA-2107-1 couchdb -- untrusted search path

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2107-1 couchdb -- untrusted search path

Date Reported:

09 Sep 2010

Affected Packages:

couchdb

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 594412.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2010-2953.

More information:

Dan Rosenberg discovered that in couchdb, a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database, an insecure library search path is used. A local attacker could execute arbitrary code by first dumping a maliciously crafted shared library in some directory, and then having an administrator run couchdb from this same directory.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.0-2+lenny1.

We recommend that you upgrade your couchdb package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/couchdb/couchdb_0.8.0-2+lenny1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/couchdb/couchdb_0.8.0-2+lenny1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/couchdb/couchdb_0.8.0.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/couchdb/couchdb_0.8.0-2+lenny1_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/couchdb/couchdb_0.8.0-2+lenny1_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/couchdb/couchdb_0.8.0-2+lenny1_arm.deb

ARM EABI:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/couchdb/couchdb_0.8.0-2+lenny1_armel.deb

HP Precision:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/couchdb/couchdb_0.8.0-2+lenny1_hppa.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/couchdb/couchdb_0.8.0-2+lenny1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/couchdb/couchdb_0.8.0-2+lenny1_ia64.deb

Big-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/couchdb/couchdb_0.8.0-2+lenny1_mips.deb

Little-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/couchdb/couchdb_0.8.0-2+lenny1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/couchdb/couchdb_0.8.0-2+lenny1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/couchdb/couchdb_0.8.0-2+lenny1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/couchdb/couchdb_0.8.0-2+lenny1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.