Bug 2083150 (CVE-2022-25324) - CVE-2022-25324 node-bignum: type-check exception in V8 could lead to DoS
Summary: CVE-2022-25324 node-bignum: type-check exception in V8 could lead to DoS
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2022-25324
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2022-05-09 13:02 UTC by Michael Kaplan
Modified: 2022-05-27 15:42 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2022-05-09 13:11:53 UTC
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Description Michael Kaplan 2022-05-09 13:02:20 UTC 
All versions of package bignum are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to a type-check exception in V8, when verifying the type of the second argument to the .powm function, V8 will crash regardless of Node try/catch blocks.

References:

https://github.com/justmoon/node-bignum/blob/ef2e02533e598d6df8421000033c4753cde89ee2/index.js#L111
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-BIGNUM-2388581
Comment 1 Michael Kaplan 2022-05-09 13:11:53 UTC 
Closing as we don't ship this.
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