Bug 1588776 (CVE-2017-16129)

Summary:	CVE-2017-16129 nodejs-superagent: Resource exhaustion via HTTP server compressed replies
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	tchollingsworth
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-06-07 20:32:19 UTC

The HTTP client module superagent is vulnerable to ZIP bomb attacks. In a ZIP bomb attack, the HTTP server replies with a compressed response that becomes several magnitudes larger once uncompressed. If a client does not take special care when processing such responses, it may result in excessive CPU and/or memory consumption. An attacker might exploit such a weakness for a DoS attack. To exploit this the attacker must control the location (URL) that superagent makes a request to.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/visionmedia/superagent/issues/1259

References:

https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/479

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-06-07 20:35:29 UTC

Created nodejs-superagent tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1588778]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1588777]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-10 10:28:00 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.