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Bug 1500705 - (CVE-2017-16137) CVE-2017-16137 nodejs-debug: Regular expression Denial of Service
CVE-2017-16137 nodejs-debug: 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: 1500706 1516739 1516740
Blocks: 1500709
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Reported: 2017-10-11 07:10 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2018-07-04 10:12 EDT (History)
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Fixed In Version: nodejs-debug 2.6.9, nodejs-debug 3.1.0
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Last Closed: 2018-02-01 02:48:37 EST
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-10-11 07:10:00 EDT
The debug module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when untrusted user input is passed into the o formatter. It takes around 50k characters to block for 2 seconds making this a low severity issue.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/issues/501

Upstream pull request:

https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/pull/504
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-10-11 07:10:23 EDT
Created nodejs-debug tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1500706]
Comment 3 Pedro Yóssis Silva Barbosa 2017-11-14 09:47:39 EST
Statement:

This issue affects the versions of rh-nodejs4-nodejs-debug, rh-nodejs6-nodejs-debug, and rh-nodejs8-nodejs-debug as shipped with Red Hat Software Collections 3. 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 4 Mark Knowles 2017-11-23 05:46:44 EST
Created nodejs-debug tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: openshift-1 [bug 1516740]
Comment 6 Jason Shepherd 2018-01-17 00:08:34 EST
debug formatters.o method not used in RHMAP. Marking as not affected.

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