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Jan LehnardtMar 31, 2010 6:53 am 
Subject:[SECURITY] CVE-2008-2370: Apache CouchDB Timing Attack Vulnerability
From:Jan Lehnardt (ja@apache.org)
Date:Mar 31, 2010 6:53:37 am
List:org.apache.couchdb.dev

My sincere apologies, I mixed up the CVE number. Here is the update report.

Cheers Jan

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CVE-2010-0009: Apache CouchDB Timing Attack Vulnerability

Severity: Important

Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation

Versions Affected: Apache CouchDB 0.8.0 to 0.10.1

Description: Apache CouchDB versions prior to version 0.11.0 are vulnerable to timing attacks, also known as side-channel information leakage, due to using simple break-on-inequality string comparisons when verifying hashes and passwords.

Mitigation: All users should upgrade to CouchDB 0.11.0. Upgrades from the 0.10.x series should be seamless. Users on earlier versions should consult

http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Breaking_changes

Example: A canonical description of the attack can be found in

http://codahale.com/a-lesson-in-timing-attacks/

Credit: This issue was discovered by Jason Davies of the Apache CouchDB development team.

References: http://couchdb.apache.org/ http://couchdb.apache.org/downloads.html http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Breaking_changes http://codahale.com/a-lesson-in-timing-attacks/

Jan Lehnardt

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