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