Bug 1591023 (CVE-2018-7164) - CVE-2018-7164 nodejs: uncontrolled memory consumption when using the net.Socket as a stream
Summary: CVE-2018-7164 nodejs: uncontrolled memory consumption when using the net.Sock...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-7164
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1591024
Blocks: 1591010
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Reported: 2018-06-13 22:37 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2020-11-05 10:32 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: nodejs 10.4.1, nodejs 9.11.2
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:29:00 UTC
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-06-13 22:37:05 UTC 
A flaw was found in Node.js versions 9.7.0 and later and 10.x. A bug introduced in 9.7.0 increases the memory consumed when reading from the network into JavaScript using the net.Socket object directly as a stream. An attacker could use this cause a denial of service by sending tiny chunks of data in short succession.


References:
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/june-2018-security-releases/
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-06-13 22:37:47 UTC 
Created nodejs tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1591024]
Comment 2 Stephen Gallagher 2018-06-14 12:31:28 UTC 
Where is the Fedora tracking bug for this?
Comment 3 Cedric Buissart 2018-06-29 09:37:24 UTC 
In reply to comment 2:
> Where is the Fedora tracking bug for this?

Fedora-28 is shipped with nodejs-8.11.3-1.fc28, thus not affected. f-29 & rawhide are currently on nodejs-10.5.0 (https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/nodejs), which contains the fix, thus not affected either.
Is there really a need for a fedora tracking bug ?
Comment 4 Cedric Buissart 2018-06-29 09:50:37 UTC 
's/really/still/'
Comment 5 Cedric Buissart 2018-06-29 11:37:27 UTC 
upstream fix:
https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3217e8e66fa81e
Comment 8 Jason Shepherd 2018-09-04 04:16:09 UTC 
This issue doesn't affect NodeJS 6, or 0.10 used by openshift-enterprise-10/logging-kibana and logging-auth-proxy respectively.
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