Percona Server for MongoDB 7.0.15-9 (2024-11-27)¶
Installation Upgrade from MongoDB Community
Percona Server for MongoDB 7.0.15-9 is an enhanced, source-available, and highly-scalable database that is a fully-compatible, drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition.
Percona Server for MongoDB 7.0.15-9 includes the improvements and bug fixes of MongoDB 7.0.15 Community Edition and supports its protocols and drivers.
Release Highlights¶
Important
This release of Percona Server for MongoDB includes a fix for a security vulnerability CVE-2024-10921. This vulnerability allowed an authorized user to trigger server crashes or receive the contents of the buffer over-reads of the server memory by sending specially crafted requests that constructed malformed BSON in MongoDB. he issue is fixed and included in Percona Server for MongoDB 7.0.15-9.
Users running any minor version of Percona Server for MongoDB 7.0.x before 7.0.15 should upgrade to this latest version as soon as possible.
This release provides the following features and improvements:
Prevent master encryption key loss on the Vault server¶
Before Percona Server for MongoDB puts a new master encryption key to the Vault server as the versioned secret, it now checks if the secret’s version reached the defined maximum (10 by default). This prevents the loss of the old secret and the master encryption key it stores on the Vault server.
Make sure Percona Server for MongoDB has read permissions for the secret’s metadata and the secrets engine configuration. To learn more, refer to the documentation.
Upstream Improvements¶
The bug fixes, provided by MongoDB and included in Percona Server for MongoDB, are the following:
- SERVER-96419 - Fixed the issue with improper neutralization of null bytes that may have led to buffer over-reads in MongoDB Server
- SERVER-95279 - Use a new C++ type for BSON field names to ensure validity
Find the full list of changes in the MongoDB 7.0.15 Community Edition release notes.
Changelog¶
Improvements¶
- PSMDB-1441 - Fixed the issue with master encryption keys getting lost when the number of created secrets exceeds the threshold by preventing a new secret creation and alerting users about it.
- PSMDB-1539 - Removed the fork:true and pidfile management to simplify migration
Fixed Bugs¶
- PSMDB-1527 - Improve the
activateKeysoption handling by changing its type to boolean.
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