| Name | CVE-2024-6383 |
| Description | The bson_string_append function in MongoDB C Driver may be vulnerable to a buffer overflow where the function might attempt to allocate too small of buffer and may lead to memory corruption of neighbouring heap memory. This issue affects libbson versions prior to 1.27.1 |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-4160-1, DLA-4175-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| libbson-xs-perl (PTS) | bullseye | 0.8.4-1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 0.8.4-1+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 0.8.4-2+deb12u1 | fixed |
| mongo-c-driver (PTS) | bullseye | 1.17.6-1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 1.17.6-1+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1.23.1-1+deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 1.30.3-1 | fixed |
| sid | 1.30.4-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/CDRIVER-5628
Fixed by: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-c-driver/commit/1d642e461e7c0e26abe3a90c7bbac081ac4a0053 (1.28.0)
Fixed by: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-c-driver/commit/7c34461863211be172e6317221d72e4429bed45e (1.27.1)