Bug 1552148 - nodejs-diff: Regular expression denial-of-service
Summary: nodejs-diff: Regular expression denial-of-service
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1552149 1552150 1552151
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-03-06 15:23 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2020-11-05 10:32 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: nodejs-diff 3.5.0
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:16:32 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2018-03-06 15:23:21 UTC 
It was found that affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks. This can cause an impact of about 10 seconds matching time for data 48K characters long.

References:

https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:diff:20180305

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/kpdecker/jsdiff/commit/2aec4298639bf30fb88a00b356bf404d3551b8c0
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-03-06 15:23:39 UTC 
Created nodejs-diff tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1552150]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1552149]
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