Bug 1591006 (CVE-2018-7167)

Summary:	CVE-2018-7167 nodejs: Denial of Service by calling Buffer.fill() or Buffer.alloc() with specially crafted parameters
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	ahardin, athmanem, avibelli, bgeorges, bleanhar, cbuissar, ccoleman, cmacedo, dbeveniu, dedgar, dffrench, drusso, hesilva, hhorak, jbalunas, jgoulding, jmadigan, jokerman, jorton, jpallich, jshepherd, krathod, lgriffin, lthon, mchappel, mrunge, mszynkie, ngough, nodejs-sig, pgallagh, pwright, rruss, sgallagh, tchollingsworth, thrcka, trepel, zsvetlik
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	nodejs 10.4.1, nodejs 9.11.2, nodejs 8.11.3, nodejs 6.14.3	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	It was found that the Buffer.fill() and Buffer.alloc() function may hang. An attacker able to control the input of these function could use this flaw to cause a denial of service.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2021-01-15 12:29:22 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1591007, 1591008, 1591009, 1596637, 1596638
Bug Blocks:	1591010

Description Laura Pardo 2018-06-13 22:05:52 UTC

A flaw was found in Node.js 6.x (LTS "Boron"), 8.x (LTS "Carbon"), and 9.x. Calling Buffer.fill() or Buffer.alloc() with some parameters can lead to a hang which could result in a Denial of Service.


References:
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/june-2018-security-releases/

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-06-13 22:06:53 UTC

Created nodejs tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1591007]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1591009]

Comment 4 Cedric Buissart 2018-06-28 13:45:05 UTC

Upstream fix:
https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7dbcfc6217

Comment 6 Jason Shepherd 2018-06-29 05:43:05 UTC

RHOAR NodeJS 10.4.1, has already been released with fixes for this issue.

Comment 12 Jason Shepherd 2018-08-07 04:43:19 UTC

While jenkins-slave-nodejs8 includes a vulnerable version of NodeJS 8, users are not able to affect other uses of the platform.

Comment 14 Jason Shepherd 2018-09-04 03:46:59 UTC

NodeJS 0.10 used by openshift-enterprise-3/logging-auth-proxy is not affected by this issue.

Comment 15 Jason Shepherd 2018-09-04 03:52:11 UTC

openshift-enterprise-3/logging-kibana doesn't make use of the code affected by this flaw

Comment 17 Cedric Buissart 2018-11-08 15:19:16 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:2949 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2949