<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201412-16"> <title>CouchDB: Denial of Service</title> <synopsis>A vulnerability in CouchDB could result in Denial of Service.</synopsis> <product type="ebuild">couchdb</product> <announced>2014-12-13</announced> <revised count="1">2014-12-13</revised> <bug>506354</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="dev-db/couchdb" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">1.5.1</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">1.5.1</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database. </p> </background> <description> <p>CouchDB does not properly sanitize the count parameter for Universally Unique Identifiers (UUID) requests. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p>A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to CouchDB, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p>The /_uuids handler can be disabled in local.ini with the following configuration: </p> <p>[httpd_global_handlers] _uuids = </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All CouchDB users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/couchdb-1.5.1" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-2668">CVE-2014-2668</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2014-08-04T19:24:09Z"> keytoaster </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-12-13T17:06:39Z">ackle</metadata> </glsa>