[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#931408: node-fstream: CVE-2019-13173

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: node-fstream
Version: 1.0.10-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for node-fstream.

CVE-2019-13173[0]:
| fstream before 1.0.12 is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Overwrite.
| Extracting tarballs containing a hardlink to a file that already
| exists in the system, and a file that matches the hardlink, will
| overwrite the system's file with the contents of the extracted file.
| The fstream.DirWriter() function is vulnerable.

In commit [2], there is open question if that is sufficient.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-13173
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-13173
[1] https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/886
[2] https://github.com/npm/fstream/commit/6a77d2fa6e1462693cf8e46f930da96ec1b0bb22

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore