Advisories » MGASA-2021-0360

Updated libuv packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 20 Jul 2021
Modification date: 20 Jul 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2021-22918

Description

Node.js before 16.4.1, 14.17.2, 12.22.2 is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds
read when uv__idna_toascii() is used to convert strings to ASCII. The pointer
p is read and increased without checking whether it is beyond pe, with the
latter holding a pointer to the end of the buffer. This can lead to
information disclosures or crashes. This function can be triggered via
uv_getaddrinfo(). (CVE-2021-22918).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29231
• https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/july-2021-security-releases/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4936
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5007-1
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-22918

SRPMS

8/core

• libuv-1.40.0-1.1.mga8