5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.053 Low
EPSS
Percentile
93.1%
The qs module has the ability to create sparse arrays during parsing.
By specifying a high index it is possible to create a large array that will eventually take up all the allocated memory of the running process, resulting in a crash.
More information:
https://github.com/visionmedia/node-querystring/issues/104
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2014-11376.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(78048);
script_version("1.7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2014-7191");
script_bugtraq_id(70113);
script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2014-11376");
script_name(english:"Fedora 20 : nodejs-qs-0.6.6-3.fc20 (2014-11376)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"The qs module has the ability to create sparse arrays during parsing.
By specifying a high index it is possible to create a large array that
will eventually take up all the allocated memory of the running
process, resulting in a crash.
More information:
https://github.com/visionmedia/node-querystring/issues/104
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1146054"
);
# https://github.com/visionmedia/node-querystring/issues/104
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://github.com/tj/node-querystring/issues/104"
);
# https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/140010.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?bac1b359"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected nodejs-qs package."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nodejs-qs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/09/25");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/10/06");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! ereg(pattern:"^20([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 20.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC20", reference:"nodejs-qs-0.6.6-3.fc20")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "nodejs-qs");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
fedoraproject | fedora | nodejs-qs | p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nodejs-qs |
fedoraproject | fedora | 20 | cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20 |