CVE-2018-16790

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-16790
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-09-10 05:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
Description_bson_iter_next_internal in bson-iter.c in libbson 1.12.0, as used in MongoDB mongo-c-driver and other products, has a heap-based buffer over-read via a crafted bson buffer.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mongodb Libbson 1.12.0 All All All
Application Mongodb Libbson 1.12.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[CDRIVER-2819] Heap buffer overflow at libbson - MongoDB MISC jira.mongodb.org Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
1627923 – (CVE-2018-16790) CVE-2018-16790 libbson: Heap-based buffer over-read in _bson_iter_next_internal in bson-iter.c CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Fix for CVE-2018-16790 -- Verify bounds before binary length read. · mongodb/mongo-c-driver@0d9a4d9 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch
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