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Red Hat: RHSA-2016-1583-01 Moderate: Minimatch Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey August 9, 2016
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Patch released addresses vulnerability in Minimatch for Red Hat Software Collections, categorized as moderate severity.
An update for rh-nodejs4-nodejs-minimatch is now available for Red Hat Software Collections

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

Summary

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)

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service update red hat nodejs minimatch

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1000023 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source: rh-nodejs4-nodejs-minimatch-3.0.2-1.el6.src.rpm
noarch: rh-nodejs4-nodejs-minimatch-3.0.2-1.el6.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6):
Source: rh-nodejs4-nodejs-minimatch-3.0.2-1.el6.src.rpm
noarch: rh-nodejs4-nodejs-minimatch-3.0.2-1.el6.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7):
Source: rh-nodejs4-nodejs-minimatch-3.0.2-1.el6.src.rpm
noarch: rh-nodejs4-nodejs-minimatch-3.0.2-1.el6.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):
Source: rh-nodejs4-nodejs-minimatch-3.0.2-1.el6.src.rpm
noarch: rh-nodejs4-nodejs-minimatch-3.0.2-1.el6.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: rh-nodejs4-nodejs-minimatch-3.0.2-1.el7.src.rpm
noarch: rh-nodejs4-nodejs-minimatch-3.0.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.1):
Source: rh-nodejs4-nodejs-minimatch-3.0.2-1.el7.src.rpm
noarch: rh-nodejs4-nodejs-minimatch-3.0.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.2):
Source: rh-nodejs4-nodejs-minimatch-3.0.2-1.el7.src.rpm
noarch: rh-nodejs4-nodejs-minimatch-3.0.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1583-01
Product: Red Hat Software Collections
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1583.html
Issue date: 2016-08-09

Topic

An update for rh-nodejs4-nodejs-minimatch is now available for Red HatSoftware Collections.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service update red hat nodejs minimatch

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.1) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.2) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - noarch

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1348509 - CVE-2016-1000023 nodejs-minimatch: Regular expression denial-of-service

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