metadata/glsa/glsa-201812-06.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201812-06">
  <title>CouchDB: Multiple vulnerabilities </title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in CouchDB, the worst of
    which could lead to the remote execution of code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">couchdb</product>
  <announced>2018-12-15</announced>
  <revised count="1">2018-12-15</revised>
  <bug>630796</bug>
  <bug>660908</bug>
  <bug>663164</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-db/couchdb" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <vulnerable range="le">2.1.2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free
      document-oriented database.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in CouchDB. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code or escalate privileges.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>Gentoo has discontinued support for CouchDB and recommends that users
      unmerge the package:
    </p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --unmerge "dev-db/couchdb"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11769">CVE-2018-11769</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8007">CVE-2018-8007</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-12-11T17:40:03Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-12-15T20:07:59Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>