Bug 1552148

Summary:	nodejs-diff: 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:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	tchollingsworth
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1552149, 1552150, 1552151
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Description Andrej Nemec 2018-03-06 15:23:21 UTC

It was found that affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks. This can cause an impact of about 10 seconds matching time for data 48K characters long.

References:

https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:diff:20180305

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/kpdecker/jsdiff/commit/2aec4298639bf30fb88a00b356bf404d3551b8c0

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-03-06 15:23:39 UTC

Created nodejs-diff tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1552150]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1552149]