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:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	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/.