Bug 1226973

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2024-38355: nodejs-electron: socket.io: unhandled 'error' event
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed	Reporter:	Camila Camargo de Matos <camila.matos>
Component:	Security	Assignee:	Bruno Pitrus <brunopitrus>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	amajer, camila.matos, dheidler, security-team, smash_bz
Version:	Current
Target Milestone:	Current
Hardware:	All
OS:	openSUSE Tumbleweed
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/411493/
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Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	1226965

Description Camila Camargo de Matos 2024-06-25 17:49:05 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1226965 +++

Socket.IO is an open source, real-time, bidirectional, event-based, communication framework. A specially crafted Socket.IO packet can trigger an uncaught exception on the Socket.IO server, thus killing the Node.js process. This issue is fixed by commit `15af22fc22` which has been included in `socket.io@4.6.2` (released in May 2023). The fix was backported in the 2.x branch as well with commit `d30630ba10`. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may attach a listener for the "error" event to catch these errors.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2024-38355
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-38355
https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/commit/15af22fc22bc6030fcead322c106f07640336115
https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/commit/d30630ba10562bf987f4d2b42440fc41a828119c
https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/security/advisories/GHSA-25hc-qcg6-38wj
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2293192

Comment 2 Bruno Pitrus 2024-06-25 19:47:07 UTC

The only copy of the offending library in the tarball is at src/third_party/devtools-frontend/src/node_modules/socket.io

A check of package-lock.json suggests that it's only included as a dependency of `karma` which is a testing framework and therefore assumed not to be shipped.