[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#1071632: node-braces: CVE-2024-4068

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

Source: node-braces
X-Debbugs-CC: team at security.debian.org
Severity: important
Tags: security

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for node-braces.

CVE-2024-4068[0]:
| The NPM package `braces`, versions prior to 3.0.3, fails to limit
| the number of characters it can handle, which could lead to Memory
| Exhaustion. In `lib/parse.js,` if a malicious user sends "imbalanced
| braces" as input, the parsing will enter a loop, which will cause
| the program to start allocating heap memory without freeing it at
| any moment of the loop. Eventually, the JavaScript heap limit is
| reached, and the program will crash.

https://github.com/micromatch/braces/issues/35


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-2024-4068
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-4068

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.