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nodejs: Fix of CVE-2026-9496
Type: advisorySources: OSV
- CVE-2026-9496: strip the committish in addGitSha() of the bundled npm pacote copy with indexOf/slice instead of a backtracking regular expression, so a crafted git spec can no longer consume excessive CPU
- Products
- nodejs, nodejs-devel, nodejs-docs, nodejs-full-i18n, nodejs-libs, npm, v8-devel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1:16.20.2-8.el9_6.tuxcare.els22, 1:8.19.4_1.16.20.2-8.el9_6.tuxcare.els22, 2:9.4.146.26_1.16.20.2-8.el9_6.tuxcare.els22
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-9496
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 10:55 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
- CVE-2026-9496: strip the committish in addGitSha() of the bundled npm pacote copy with indexOf/slice instead of a backtracking regular expression, so a crafted git spec can no longer consume excessive CPU
osv:CLSA-2026-1791841538
nodejs
Fixed versions: 1:16.20.2-8.el9_6.tuxcare.els22
nodejs-devel
Fixed versions: 1:16.20.2-8.el9_6.tuxcare.els22
nodejs-docs
Fixed versions: 1:16.20.2-8.el9_6.tuxcare.els22
nodejs-full-i18n
Fixed versions: 1:16.20.2-8.el9_6.tuxcare.els22
nodejs-libs
Fixed versions: 1:16.20.2-8.el9_6.tuxcare.els22
npm
Fixed versions: 1:8.19.4_1.16.20.2-8.el9_6.tuxcare.els22
v8-devel
Fixed versions: 2:9.4.146.26_1.16.20.2-8.el9_6.tuxcare.els22
Complete source record
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