CVE-2012-6619 Information

Description

The default configuration for MongoDB before 2.3.2 does not validate objects which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) or read system memory via a crafted BSON object in the column name in an insert command which triggers a buffer over-read.

Reference

http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2012/11/attacking-mongodb.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0230.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0440.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/07/13 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/07/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/08/9 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049748 https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-7769