Bug 1588794 (CVE-2017-16114)

Summary:	CVE-2017-16114 nodejs-marked: Regular expression denial of service
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:	jsmith.fedora
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-06-07 20:58:53 UTC

The marked module is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service. Based on the information published in the public issue, 1k characters can block for around 6 seconds.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/markedjs/marked/issues/937

External references:

https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/531

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-06-07 20:59:37 UTC

Created nodejs-marked tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-28 [bug 1588795]

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