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Bug 1500700 - (CVE-2017-16138) CVE-2017-16138 nodejs-mime: Regular expression Denial of Service
CVE-2017-16138 nodejs-mime: Regular expression Denial of Service
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=moderate,public=20170905,repor...
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Depends On: 1500701 1500702 1501997 1501998 1516749 1516750
Blocks: 1500708
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Reported: 2017-10-11 07:04 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2018-07-04 10:00 EDT (History)
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Fixed In Version: nodejs-mime 2.0.3
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The mime module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when a mime lookup is performed on untrusted user input.
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Last Closed: 2018-02-26 20:44:17 EST
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-10-11 07:04:59 EDT
The mime module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when a mime lookup is performed on untrusted user input.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/broofa/node-mime/issues/167

Upstream patches:

https://github.com/broofa/node-mime/commit/855d0c4b8b22e4a80b9401a81f2872058eae274d
https://github.com/broofa/node-mime/commit/1df903fdeb9ae7eaa048795b8d580ce2c98f40b0
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-10-11 07:05:28 EDT
Created nodejs-mime tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1500701]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1500702]
Comment 2 Pedro Yóssis Silva Barbosa 2017-10-13 12:38:18 EDT
External References:

https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/535
Comment 6 Pedro Yóssis Silva Barbosa 2017-10-18 11:14:56 EDT
This issue affects the versions of rh-nodejs4-nodejs-mime as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
Comment 8 Mark Knowles 2017-11-23 06:02:21 EST
Created nodejs-mime tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: openshift-1 [bug 1516749]
Comment 10 Jason Shepherd 2018-01-12 01:49:17 EST
The vulnerable function call, mime.lookup, is not used in any RHMAP services. Marking it as not affected.

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