Improper Data Handling The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nodejs  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1810-NODEJS-664062
  • published10 Oct 2016
  • disclosed10 Oct 2016

Introduced: 10 Oct 2016

CVE-2016-7099  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-19  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nodejs package and not the nodejs package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The tls.checkServerIdentity function in Node.js 0.10.x before 0.10.47, 0.12.x before 0.12.16, 4.x before 4.6.0, and 6.x before 6.7.0 does not properly handle wildcards in name fields of X.509 certificates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers via a crafted certificate.