GHSA-h6rj-8r3c-9gpj

bson is vulnerable to denial of service due to incorrect regex validation

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2015-4412

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
RubyGems	bson	< 1.12.3	1.12.3
RubyGems	bson	>= 2.0, < 3.0.4	3.0.4

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

BSON injection vulnerability in the legal function in BSON (bson-ruby) gem before 3.0.4 for Ruby allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) or inject arbitrary data via a crafted string.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-4412 advisory
https://github.com/mongodb/bson-ruby/commit/976da329ff03ecdfca3030eb6efe3c85e6db9999 web
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229750 web
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h6rj-8r3c-9gpj advisory
https://github.com/mongodb/bson-ruby package
https://github.com/mongodb/bson-ruby/compare/7446d7c6764dfda8dc4480ce16d5c023e74be5ca...28f34978a85b689a4480b4d343389bf4886522e7 web
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/bson/CVE-2015-4412.yml web
https://sakurity.com/blog/2015/06/04/mongo_ruby_regexp.html web
http://sakurity.com/blog/2015/06/04/mongo_ruby_regexp.html web
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/06/3 web
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75045 web