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openSUSE: 2022:3578-1 moderate: python3 denial of service

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Calendar Grey July 14, 2018
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An important security patch released for nodejs6 on openSUSE, resolving a moderate denial of service vulnerability through an essential update.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available.

Description

This update for nodejs6 to version 6.14.3 fixes the following issues:

The following security vulnerability was addressed:

- Fixed a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in Buffer.fill(), which

could hang when being called (CVE-2018-7167, bsc#1097375).

The following other changes were made:

- Use absolute paths in executable shebang lines

- Fixed building with ICU61.1 (bsc#1091764)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

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security advisory denial of service update moderate severity patch openSUSE nodejs6

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-723=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

nodejs6-6.14.3-12.1

nodejs6-debuginfo-6.14.3-12.1

nodejs6-debugsource-6.14.3-12.1

nodejs6-devel-6.14.3-12.1

npm6-6.14.3-12.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):

nodejs6-docs-6.14.3-12.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-7167.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1091764

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1097375

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:1962-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 le.

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security advisory denial of service update moderate severity patch openSUSE nodejs6

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