Bug 2293218 - CVE-2024-28863 nodejs18: node-tar: denial of service while parsing a tar file due to lack of folders depth validation [fedora-40]
Summary: CVE-2024-28863 nodejs18: node-tar: denial of service while parsing a tar file...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: nodejs18
Version: 40
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
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Assignee: Stephen Gallagher
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Blocks: CVE-2024-28863
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Reported: 2024-06-20 10:30 UTC by TEJ RATHI
Modified: 2025-04-14 08:30 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: nodejs18-18.20.6-1.fc40
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Last Closed: 2025-04-14 08:30:48 UTC
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Description TEJ RATHI 2024-06-20 10:30:39 UTC
More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2293200

Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 1 TEJ RATHI 2024-06-20 10:30:41 UTC
Use the following template to for the 'fedpkg update' request to submit an
update for this issue as it contains the top-level parent bug(s) as well as
this tracking bug.  This will ensure that all associated bugs get updated
when new packages are pushed to stable.

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# bugfix, security, enhancement, newpackage (required)
type=security

# low, medium, high, urgent (required)
severity=medium

# testing, stable
request=testing

# Bug numbers: 1234,9876
bugs=2293200,2293218

# Description of your update
notes=Security fix for [PUT CVEs HERE]

# Enable request automation based on the stable/unstable karma thresholds
autokarma=True
stable_karma=3
unstable_karma=-3

# Automatically close bugs when this marked as stable
close_bugs=True

# Suggest that users restart after update
suggest_reboot=False

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Additionally, you may opt to use the bodhi web interface to submit updates:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/new

Comment 3 TomasJuhasz 2025-04-14 08:30:48 UTC
Update to nodejs-tar which includes the fix - https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/commit/fe8cd57da5686f8695415414bda49206a545f7f7, was v6.2.1. 
Npm has updated the nodejs-tar dependency to v6.2.1 in Node.js 18.20.3 - https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/53214.
Closing as current release in fedora is 18.20.8.


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