SB2018033043 - Resource exhaustion in nodejs-current (Alpine package)
Published: March 30, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018033043
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-7158)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists in the splitPathRe regular expression used in the core Node.js path module for POSIX path parsing functions due to resource exhaustion. A remote attacker can cause the service to crash by taking a non-trivial amount of time to parse the value against the RegEx.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.