Bug 1500705 (CVE-2017-16137)

Summary:	CVE-2017-16137 nodejs-debug: Regular expression Denial of Service
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bdettelb, bleanhar, ccoleman, dblechte, dedgar, dfediuck, dffrench, dmcphers, drusso, eedri, hhorak, jgoulding, jkeck, jmadigan, jorton, jshepherd, kpiwko, kseifried, lgriffin, mgoldboi, michal.skrivanek, ngough, nodejs-sig, omachace, pbraun, pebarbos, piotr1212, pwright, rrajasek, sbonazzo, sgratch, sherold, tchollingsworth, thrcka, tjay, tomckay, trepel, yturgema, zsvetlik
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	nodejs-debug 2.6.9, nodejs-debug 3.1.0	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed:	2018-02-01 07:48:37 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1500706, 1516739, 1516740
Bug Blocks:	1500709

Description Andrej Nemec 2017-10-11 11:10:00 UTC

The debug module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when untrusted user input is passed into the o formatter. It takes around 50k characters to block for 2 seconds making this a low severity issue.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/issues/501

Upstream pull request:

https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/pull/504

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-10-11 11:10:23 UTC

Created nodejs-debug tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1500706]

Comment 4 Mark Knowles 2017-11-23 10:46:44 UTC

Created nodejs-debug tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: openshift-1 [bug 1516740]

Comment 6 Jason Shepherd 2018-01-17 05:08:34 UTC

debug formatters.o method not used in RHMAP. Marking as not affected.

Comment 9 Jason Shepherd 2021-05-07 01:43:31 UTC

Statement:

This issue affects the versions of rh-nodejs4-nodejs-debug, rh-nodejs6-nodejs-debug, and rh-nodejs8-nodejs-debug as shipped with Red Hat Software Collections 3. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

Red Hat Virtualization 4.2 EUS includes a vulnerable version of nodejs-debug as a part of the ovirt-engine-api-explorer package.  This package is removed in Red Hat Virtualization 4.3.

Red Hat Quay includes the debug library as a dependency of karma-webpack. It is only used at build time, and not runtime so its impact is reduce to low in Red Hat Quay.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2021-10-19 12:10:01 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Quay 3

Via RHSA-2021:3917 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3917