Issued:
2017-10-18
Updated:
2017-10-18

RHSA-2017:2912 - Moderate: rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie security update


Synopsis

Moderate: rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie 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

Tough-Cookie is a Node.js module that offers RFC6265 Cookies and Cookie Jar.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie (2.3.3). (BZ#1497695)

Security Fix(es):

  • Regular expression denial of service flaws were found in Tough-Cookie. An attacker able to make an application using Touch-Cookie to parse a sufficiently large HTTP request Cookie header could cause the application to consume an excessive amount of CPU. (CVE-2016-1000232, CVE-2017-15010)

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

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation)1x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation)1x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server)1x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server)1x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server)1x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server)1x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server)1x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server)1x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server)1x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server)1x86_64

Updated Packages

  • rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie-2.3.3-2.el6.src.rpm
  • rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie-2.3.3-2.el7.noarch.rpm
  • rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie-2.3.3-2.el7.src.rpm
  • rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie-2.3.3-2.el6.noarch.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

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