Bug 1591872 – CVE-2017-16014 nodejs-http-proxy: DOS via improper error handling in middleware implementation

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Bug 1591872 - (CVE-2017-16014) CVE-2017-16014 nodejs-http-proxy: DOS via improper error handling in middleware implementation

Summary:	CVE-2017-16014 nodejs-http-proxy: DOS via improper error handling in middlewa...

Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE

Aliases:	CVE-2017-16014

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1591874
Blocks:	1591875
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Reported:	2018-06-15 13:47 EDT by Pedro Sampaio
Modified:	2018-07-01 23:03 EDT (History)
CC List:	10 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	nodejs-http-proxy 0.7.0
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Last Closed:	2018-06-24 05:24:21 EDT
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-06-15 13:47:29 EDT

Affected versions of http-proxy are vulnerable to a denial of service attack, wherein an attacker can force an error which will cause the server to crash.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy/pull/101

External references:

https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/323

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-06-15 13:48:12 EDT

Created nodejs-http-proxy tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1591874]

Comment 2 Parag Nemade 2018-06-16 05:19:53 EDT

May I know why you think given https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy/pull/101 patch is not already present in Fedora?

The current Fedora release for this package is nodejs-http-proxy-1.16.2-5.fc28.noarch and is based on upstream release 1.16.2 which got released in December 2016.

The patch you given in description is already merged in upstream since long time.

Comment 3 Andrej Nemec 2018-06-21 08:12:34 EDT

(In reply to Parag Nemade from comment #2)
> May I know why you think given
> https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy/pull/101 patch is not already
> present in Fedora?
> 
> The current Fedora release for this package is
> nodejs-http-proxy-1.16.2-5.fc28.noarch and is based on upstream release
> 1.16.2 which got released in December 2016.
> 
> The patch you given in description is already merged in upstream since long
> time.

Hi,

This definitely looks like an error, I'll change the status to notaffected and close the associated tracking bug. Thanks for the info!

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