[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#985568: node-ua-parser-js: CVE-2021-27292

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: node-ua-parser-js
Version: 0.7.23+ds-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>
Control: found -1 0.7.14-1 

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for node-ua-parser-js.

CVE-2021-27292[0]:
| ua-parser-js >= 0.7.14, fixed in 0.7.24, uses a regular expression
| which is vulnerable to denial of service. If an attacker sends a
| malicious User-Agent header, ua-parser-js will get stuck processing it
| for an extended period of time.


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-2021-27292
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-27292
[1] https://github.com/faisalman/ua-parser-js/commit/809439e20e273ce0d25c1d04e111dcf6011eb566
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1940613

Regards,
Salvatore