Resource Exhaustion Affecting nodejs package, versions <10.14.0-r0
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE310-NODEJS-454893
- published 2 Dec 2018
- disclosed 28 Nov 2018
Introduced: 28 Nov 2018
CVE-2018-12121 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.10 nodejs to version 10.14.0-r0 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nodejs package and not the nodejs package as distributed by Alpine.
See How to fix? for Alpine:3.10 relevant fixed versions and status.
Node.js: All versions prior to Node.js 6.15.0, 8.14.0, 10.14.0 and 11.3.0: Denial of Service with large HTTP headers: By using a combination of many requests with maximum sized headers (almost 80 KB per connection), and carefully timed completion of the headers, it is possible to cause the HTTP server to abort from heap allocation failure. Attack potential is mitigated by the use of a load balancer or other proxy layer.
References
- https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/november-2018-security-releases/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-12121
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-12121
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-48
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1821
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2258
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3497
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106043
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-12121