Issued:

2016-08-09

Updated:

2016-08-09

RHSA-2016:1583 - Moderate: rh-nodejs4-nodejs-minimatch security update

Synopsis

Moderate: rh-nodejs4-nodejs-minimatch security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for rh-nodejs4-nodejs-minimatch is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Minimatch is a minimal matching utility that works by converting glob expressions into JavaScript RegExp objects.

Security Fix(es):

• A regular expression denial of service flaw was found in Minimatch. An attacker able to make an application using Minimatch to perform matching using a specially crafted glob pattern could cause the application to consume an excessive amount of CPU. (CVE-2016-1000023)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• rh-nodejs4-nodejs-minimatch-3.0.2-1.el6.noarch.rpm
• rh-nodejs4-nodejs-minimatch-3.0.2-1.el6.src.rpm
• rh-nodejs4-nodejs-minimatch-3.0.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm
• rh-nodejs4-nodejs-minimatch-3.0.2-1.el7.src.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1348509

CVEs

• CVE-2016-1000023

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#normal

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
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