Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1591006
CVE-2018-7167 nodejs: Denial of Service by calling Buffer.fill() or Buffer.alloc() with specially crafted parameters
Last modified: 2018-10-03 09:22:08 EDT
A flaw was found in Node.js 6.x (LTS "Boron"), 8.x (LTS "Carbon"), and 9.x. Calling Buffer.fill() or Buffer.alloc() with some parameters can lead to a hang which could result in a Denial of Service. References: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/june-2018-security-releases/
Created nodejs tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: epel-all [bug 1591007] Affects: fedora-all [bug 1591009]
Upstream fix: https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7dbcfc6217
RHOAR NodeJS 10.4.1, has already been released with fixes for this issue.
While jenkins-slave-nodejs8 includes a vulnerable version of NodeJS 8, users are not able to affect other uses of the platform.
NodeJS 0.10 used by openshift-enterprise-3/logging-auth-proxy is not affected by this issue.
openshift-enterprise-3/logging-kibana doesn't make use of the code affected by this flaw