Bug 1591023 (CVE-2018-7164)

Summary:	CVE-2018-7164 nodejs: uncontrolled memory consumption when using the net.Socket as a stream
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	ahardin, alessandro.polidori, athmanem, avibelli, bgeorges, bleanhar, ccoleman, dbeveniu, dedgar, hesilva, hhorak, jbalunas, jgoulding, jokerman, jorton, jpallich, jshepherd, krathod, lthon, mchappel, mrunge, mszynkie, nodejs-sig, pgallagh, rruss, sgallagh, tchollingsworth, thrcka, trogers, zsvetlik
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Fixed In Version:	nodejs 10.4.1, nodejs 9.11.2	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On:	1591024
Bug Blocks:	1591010

Description Laura Pardo 2018-06-13 22:37:05 UTC

A flaw was found in Node.js versions 9.7.0 and later and 10.x. A bug introduced in 9.7.0 increases the memory consumed when reading from the network into JavaScript using the net.Socket object directly as a stream. An attacker could use this cause a denial of service by sending tiny chunks of data in short succession.


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

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-06-13 22:37:47 UTC

Created nodejs tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1591024]

Comment 2 Stephen Gallagher 2018-06-14 12:31:28 UTC

Where is the Fedora tracking bug for this?

Comment 3 Cedric Buissart 2018-06-29 09:37:24 UTC

In reply to comment 2:
> Where is the Fedora tracking bug for this?

Fedora-28 is shipped with nodejs-8.11.3-1.fc28, thus not affected. f-29 & rawhide are currently on nodejs-10.5.0 (https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/nodejs), which contains the fix, thus not affected either.
Is there really a need for a fedora tracking bug ?

Comment 4 Cedric Buissart 2018-06-29 09:50:37 UTC

's/really/still/'

Comment 5 Cedric Buissart 2018-06-29 11:37:27 UTC

upstream fix:
https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3217e8e66fa81e

Comment 8 Jason Shepherd 2018-09-04 04:16:09 UTC

This issue doesn't affect NodeJS 6, or 0.10 used by openshift-enterprise-10/logging-kibana and logging-auth-proxy respectively.