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rubygem-bson -- DoS and possible injection

Affected packages
rubygem-bson < 3.0.4

Details

VuXML ID f5225b23-192d-11e5-a1cf-002590263bf5
Discovery 2015-06-04
Entry 2015-06-23

Phill MV reports:

By submitting a specially crafted string to a service relying on the bson rubygem, an attacker may trigger denials of service or even inject data into victim's MongoDB instances.

References

CVE Name CVE-2015-4412
Message http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/06/1
URL http://sakurity.com/blog/2015/06/04/mongo_ruby_regexp.html
URL https://github.com/mongodb/bson-ruby/commit/976da329ff03ecdfca3030eb6efe3c85e6db9999