Advisories » MGASA-2021-0169

Updated nodejs-chownr packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 02 Apr 2021
Modification date: 02 Apr 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2017-18869

Description

Updated nodejs-chownr package fixes security vulnerability:

A TOCTOU issue in the chownr package before 1.1.0 for Node.js 10.10 could
allow a local attacker to trick it into descending into unintended
directories via symlink attacks (CVE-2017-18869).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27971
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-18869

SRPMS

7/core

• nodejs-chownr-1.1.0-1.mga7