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Bug 1561981 - (CVE-2018-7159) CVE-2018-7159 nodejs: HTTP parser allowed for spaces inside Content-Length header values
CVE-2018-7159 nodejs: HTTP parser allowed for spaces inside Content-Length he...
Status: NEW
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
unspecified
All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=low,public=20180308,reported=2...
: Security
Depends On: 1562034 1565042 1565044 1562026 1562027 1562028 1565043 1565269
Blocks: 1561984
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Reported: 2018-03-29 05:51 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2018-10-04 04:56 EDT (History)
21 users (show)

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Fixed In Version: nodejs 8.11.0, nodejs 6.14.0, nodejs 4.9.0, nodejs 9.10.0
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It was found that the http module from Node.js could accept incorrect Content-Length values, containing spaces within the value, in HTTP headers. A specially crafted client could use this flaw to possibly confuse the script, causing unspecified behavior.
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Description Adam Mariš 2018-03-29 05:51:10 EDT
The Node.js HTTP parser allowed for spaces inside Content-Length header values. Such values now lead to rejected connections in the same way as non-numeric values.

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https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V8.md
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2018-03-29 08:07:38 EDT
Created nodejs tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1562027]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1562026]
Comment 5 Cedric Buissart 2018-04-06 07:57:34 EDT
Upstream fix: https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c39167dc26
Comment 9 Jason Shepherd 2018-06-13 17:20:46 EDT
NodeJS is only packaged as an ImageStream in Openshift Enterprise 3.9, which is a container image from RH Software Collections. Marking Openshift Enterprise as not affected.

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