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Mageia 8: MGASA-2021-0592 Critical: Nodejs HTTP Request Smuggling

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Calendar Grey December 30, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Node.js libraries have received updates to address significant vulnerabilities in HTTP Request Smuggling. Explore the details in the advisory report.
HTTP Request Smuggling due to spaces in headers

Summary

HTTP Request Smuggling due to spaces in headers. The http parser accepts requests with a space (SP) right after the header name before the colon. This can lead to HTTP Request Smuggling (HRS). (CVE-2021-22959) HTTP Request Smuggling when parsing the body. The parse ignores chunk extensions when parsing the body of chunked requests. This leads to HTTP Request Smuggling (HRS) under certain conditions. (CVE-2021-22960)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29584

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/EUZYFCI7N4TFZSIGA7WGZ4Q7V3EK76GH/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-22959

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-22960

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical nodejs http request smuggling Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/nodejs-14.18.1-1.1.mga8

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Publication date: 30 Dec 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0592.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-22959, CVE-2021-22960

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical nodejs http request smuggling Mageia

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