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TITLE:
Apache CouchDB Insecure Timing Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA39146

VERIFY ADVISORY:
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Apache CouchDB, which can be
exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to the algorithms used for verifying
certain hashes and passwords having a predictable execution time.
This can be exploited to disclose sensitive data via brute force
attacks.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 0.8.0 through 0.10.1.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.11.0.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Jason Davies of the Apache CouchDB development team

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://couchdb.apache.org/security.html

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