pymongo vulnerability

3 July 2013

pymongo vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 13.04
• Ubuntu 12.10
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

PyMongo could be made to crash under certain conditions.

Software Description

• pymongo - Python interface to the MongoDB document-oriented database

Details

Jibbers McGee discovered that PyMongo incorrectly handled certain invalid DBRefs. An attacker could use this issue to cause PyMongo to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 13.04

python-bson - 2.2-4ubuntu0.1

python-bson-ext - 2.2-4ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 12.10

python-bson - 2.2-2ubuntu0.1

python-bson-ext - 2.2-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

python-bson - 2.1-1ubuntu0.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2013-2132