A http-parser security and bug fix update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: http-parser security and bug fix update Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:3497-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3497 Issue date: 2019-11-05
CVE Names: CVE-2018-12121
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1. Summary:

An update for http-parser is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
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 Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
3. Description:

The http-parser package provides a utility for parsing HTTP messages. It parses both requests and responses. The parser is designed to be used in performance HTTP applications. It does not make any system calls or allocations, it does not buffer data, and it can be interrupted at any time. Depending on your architecture, it only requires about 40 bytes of data per message stream.

Security Fix(es):

* nodejs: Denial of Service with large HTTP headers (CVE-2018-12121)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.
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/):

1661002 - CVE-2018-12121 nodejs: Denial of Service with large HTTP headers 1686488 - 'make test' fails with stringop-overflow error

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):

Source:
http-parser-2.8.0-5.el8.src.rpm

aarch64:
http-parser-2.8.0-5.el8.aarch64.rpm
http-parser-debuginfo-2.8.0-5.el8.aarch64.rpm
http-parser-debugsource-2.8.0-5.el8.aarch64.rpm

ppc64le:
http-parser-2.8.0-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm
http-parser-debuginfo-2.8.0-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm
http-parser-debugsource-2.8.0-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
http-parser-2.8.0-5.el8.s390x.rpm
http-parser-debuginfo-2.8.0-5.el8.s390x.rpm
http-parser-debugsource-2.8.0-5.el8.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
http-parser-2.8.0-5.el8.i686.rpm
http-parser-2.8.0-5.el8.x86_64.rpm
http-parser-debuginfo-2.8.0-5.el8.i686.rpm
http-parser-debuginfo-2.8.0-5.el8.x86_64.rpm
http-parser-debugsource-2.8.0-5.el8.i686.rpm
http-parser-debugsource-2.8.0-5.el8.x86_64.rpm

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https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12121
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.1_release_notes/

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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