Bug 1295717 – nodejs-ws: Remote memory disclosure via ping functionality

Bug 1295717 - nodejs-ws: Remote memory disclosure via ping functionality

Summary:	nodejs-ws: Remote memory disclosure via ping functionality

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	None

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1295718 1295719 1295720 1295721
Blocks:	1295723
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Reported:	2016-01-05 05:53 EST by Adam Mariš
Modified:	2016-01-20 23:37 EST (History)
CC List:	11 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	nodejs-ws 1.0.1
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2016-01-19 15:56:17 EST
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-01-05 05:53:56 EST

A vulnerability in the ping functionality of ws module which allowed clients to allocate memory by simply sending a ping frame. The ping functionality by default responds with a pong frame and the previously given payload of the ping frame. As a result, client receives non-zeroed out allocated buffer from server of arbitrary length. Assuming the usage of modern kernel, only the memory previously used and deallocated by the node process and the memory that has been previously allocated as a Buffer can be leaked using this way.

External reference:

https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/67

Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2016-01-05 05:55:00 EST

Created nodejs-ws tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1295718]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1295719]

Comment 4 Kurt Seifried 2016-01-11 23:56:15 EST

OpenShift Enterprise 2.x does not use the ping functionality in openshift-origin-node-proxy.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2016-01-14 03:53:34 EST

nodejs-ws-1.0.1-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2016-01-14 04:49:14 EST

nodejs-ws-1.0.1-1.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2016-01-20 23:27:15 EST

nodejs-ws-1.0.1-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2016-01-20 23:37:21 EST

nodejs-ws-1.0.1-1.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

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