| Name | CVE-2017-16119 |
| Description | Fresh is a module used by the Express.js framework for HTTP response freshness testing. It is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when it is passed specially crafted input to parse. This causes the event loop to be blocked causing a denial of service condition. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 927715 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| node-fresh (PTS) | bullseye | 0.5.2-1 | fixed |
| bookworm, trixie | 0.5.2+~0.5.0-2 | fixed |
| forky, sid | 2.0.0+~0.5.3-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[stretch] - node-fresh <end-of-life> (Nodejs in stretch not covered by security support)
[jessie] - node-fresh <end-of-life> (Nodejs in jessie not covered by security support)
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/526