CVE-2012-6619 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2012-6619?

CVE-2012-6619 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Mongodb Mongodb, published on 6 Mar 2014. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The default configuration for MongoDB before 2.3.2 does not validate objects, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) or read system memory via a crafted BSON object in the column name in an insert command, which triggers a buffer over-read.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-6619?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mongodb Mongodb.

How do I fix CVE-2012-6619?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2012-6619 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-6619 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-7gm2-h58c-936h, MGASA-2014-0083, MINI-3g2q-q5mq-2gq6, MINI-vrpx-8cqf-pgwp, RHSA-2014:0230.