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Red Hat: CVE-2024-28863: node-tar: denial of service while parsing a tar file due to lack of folders depth validation (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2024-28863: node-tar: denial of service while parsing a tar file due to lack of folders depth validation (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
03/21/2024
Created
09/14/2024
Added
09/13/2024
Modified
09/13/2024

Description

node-tar is a Tar for Node.js. node-tar prior to version 6.2.1 has no limit on the number of sub-folders created in the folder creation process. An attacker who generates a large number of sub-folders can consume memory on the system running node-tar and even crash the Node.js client within few seconds of running it using a path with too many sub-folders inside. Version 6.2.1 fixes this issue by preventing extraction in excessively deep sub-folders.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-docs
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-full-i18n
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-nodemon
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-packaging
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-packaging-bundler
  • redhat-upgrade-npm

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