CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-14227
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-09-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
In MongoDB libbson 1.7.0, the bson_iter_codewscope function in bson-iter.c miscalculates a bson_utf8_validate length argument, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read in the bson_utf8_validate function in bson-utf8.c), as demonstrated by bson-to-json.c.
Affected configurations
• mongodb mongodb 1.7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100825 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1489355 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1489356 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1489362 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100825 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1489355 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1489356 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1489362 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00012.html lists.debian.org