10 - RHSA-2016:1582

Problem Description:

An update for nodejs010-nodejs-minimatch is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - noarch Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6) - noarch Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7) - noarch Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.1) - noarch Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.2) - noarch Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - noarch Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch

3. Description:

Minimatch is a minimal matching utility that works by converting glob expressions into JavaScript RegExp objects.

Security Fix(es):

* A regular expression denial of service flaw was found in Minimatch. An attacker able to make an application using Minimatch to perform matching using a specially crafted glob pattern could cause the application to consume an excessive amount of CPU. (CVE-2016-1000023)

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1348509 - CVE-2016-1000023 nodejs-minimatch: Regular expression denial-of-service