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CentOS: CESA-2021-0032-01 Moderate: Session-Fixation Vulnerability
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October 18, 2017
An update for rh-nodejs6-nodejs-tough-cookie 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
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-nodejs6-nodejs-tough-cookie (2.3.3). (BZ#1497701)
Security Fix(es):
* A regular expression denial of service flaw was 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-2017-15010)
Topics Covered
References
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15010 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
Package List
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source:
rh-nodejs6-nodejs-tough-cookie-2.3.3-1.el6.src.rpm
noarch:
rh-nodejs6-nodejs-tough-cookie-2.3.3-1.el6.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7):
Source:
rh-nodejs6-nodejs-tough-cookie-2.3.3-1.el6.src.rpm
noarch:
rh-nodejs6-nodejs-tough-cookie-2.3.3-1.el6.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):
Source:
rh-nodejs6-nodejs-tough-cookie-2.3.3-1.el6.src.rpm
noarch:
rh-nodejs6-nodejs-tough-cookie-2.3.3-1.el6.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source:
rh-nodejs6-nodejs-tough-cookie-2.3.3-1.el7.src.rpm
noarch:
rh-nodejs6-nodejs-tough-cookie-2.3.3-1.el7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3):
Source:
rh-nodejs6-nodejs-tough-cookie-2.3.3-1.el7.src.rpm
noarch:
rh-nodejs6-nodejs-tough-cookie-2.3.3-1.el7.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):
Source:
rh-nodejs6-nodejs-tough-cookie-2.3.3-1.el7.src.rpm
noarch:
rh-nodejs6-nodejs-tough-cookie-2.3.3-1.el7.noarch.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:2913-01
Product: Red Hat Software Collections
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2913
Issue date: 2017-10-18
Topic
An update for rh-nodejs6-nodejs-tough-cookie 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 Covered
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. 6.7) - noarch
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3) - 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
1493989 - CVE-2017-15010 nodejs-tough-cookie: Regular expression denial of service
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