Description
bson before 0.8 incorrectly uses int rather than size_t for many variables, parameters, and return values. In particular, the bson_ensure_space() parameter bytesNeeded could have an integer overflow via properly constructed bson input.
Affected products
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n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/whoopsie/+bug/1872560 ↗
- https://launchpadlibrarian.net/474887364/bson-fix-overflow.patch ↗
- https://github.com/10gen-archive/mongo-c-driver-legacy/commit/1a1f5e26a4309480d88598913f9eebf9e9cba8ca#diff-f7d29a680148f52d6601f59ed787f577 ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4450-1/ ↗