CouchDB: Denial of Service

CouchDB: Denial of Service A vulnerability in CouchDB could result in Denial of Service. couchdb December 13, 2014 December 13, 2014: 1 506354 remote 1.5.1 1.5.1

Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database.

CouchDB does not properly sanitize the count parameter for Universally Unique Identifiers (UUID) requests.

A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to CouchDB, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.

The /_uuids handler can be disabled in local.ini with the following configuration:

[httpd_global_handlers] _uuids =

All CouchDB users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/couchdb-1.5.1"

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