Advisories ยป MGASA-2016-0307

Updated nodejs packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 21 Sep 2016
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2016-1669

Description

Under certain conditions, V8 may improperly expand memory allocations in
the Zone::New function. This could potentially be used to cause a Denial
of Service via buffer overflow or as a trigger for a remote code execution
(CVE-2016-1669).

The primary npm registry has used HTTP bearer tokens to authenticate
requests from the npm command-line interface. Due to a design flaw in the
CLI, these bearer tokens were sent with every request made by the CLI for
logged-in users, regardless of the destination of the request. This flaw
allows an attacker to set up an HTTP server that could collect
authentication information they could use to impersonate the users whose
tokens they collected. This impersonation would allow them to do anything
the compromised users could do, including publishing new versions of
packages.
                

References

SRPMS

5/core