Bug 1309721 (CVE-2016-2515)

Summary: CVE-2016-2515 nodejs-hawk: Long headers or URIs can cause minor DoS
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: unspecifiedCC: bleanhar, ccoleman, dmcphers, jialiu, jkeck, jokerman, jorton, kseifried, lmeyer, mmaslano, mmccomas, piotr1212, tchollingsworth, thrcka, zsvetlik
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: nodejs-hawk 3.1.3, nodejs-hawk 4.1.1 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2016-03-01 14:39:47 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1309722, 1309723    
Bug Blocks: 1309726    

Description Adam Mariš 2016-02-18 14:52:36 UTC 
It was found that specially crafted long headers or uris can cause a minor denial of service.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/commit/0833f99ba64558525995a7e21d4093da1f3e15fa
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-02-18 14:53:09 UTC 
Created nodejs-hawk tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1309722]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1309723]
Comment 2 Kurt Seifried 2016-03-01 14:39:47 UTC 
Statement:

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. Additionally nodejs-hawk is only present as a BuildRequires dependency in the nodejs-request package, the actual hawk functionality is not used in OpenShift Enterprise 3. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.