[arch-security] [ASA-201510-3] nodejs: denial of service

[Levente Polyak]

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201510-3
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Severity: Medium
Date    : 2015-10-06
CVE-ID  : CVE-2015-7384
Package : nodejs
Type    : denial of service
Remote  : Yes
Link    : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CVE

Summary
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The package nodejs before version 4.1.2-1 is vulnerable to denial of
service.

Resolution
==========

Upgrade to 4.1.2-1.

# pacman -Syu "nodejs>=4.1.2-1"

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 4.1.2.

Workaround
==========

None.

Description
===========

A vulnerability has been discovered in the HTTP pipeline handling that
is leading to an application crash. This problem is caused by
out-of-order responses being sent to the client within a single
pipelined connection.

Impact
======

A remote attacker is able to crash the process when out-of-order
responses are sent within a single pipelined connection resulting in
denial of service.

References
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https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3138
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7384
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v4.1.2/

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