Issued:

2017-10-18

Updated:

2017-10-18

RHSA-2017:2908 - Moderate: rh-nodejs6-nodejs security update

Synopsis

Moderate: rh-nodejs6-nodejs security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for rh-nodejs6-nodejs is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-nodejs6-nodejs (6.11.3). (BZ#1476317)

Security Fix(es):

• It was found that Node.js was using a non-randomized seed when populating hash tables. An attacker, able to supply a large number of inputs, could send specially crafted entries to the Node.js application, maximizing hash collisions to trigger an excessive amount of CPU usage, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-11499)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• rh-nodejs6-nodejs-debuginfo-6.11.3-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
• rh-nodejs6-nodejs-docs-6.11.3-2.el6.noarch.rpm
• rh-nodejs6-nodejs-6.11.3-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
• rh-nodejs6-nodejs-6.11.3-2.el7.src.rpm
• rh-nodejs6-nodejs-debuginfo-6.11.3-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
• rh-nodejs6-nodejs-devel-6.11.3-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
• rh-nodejs6-nodejs-6.11.3-2.el6.src.rpm
• rh-nodejs6-nodejs-devel-6.11.3-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
• rh-nodejs6-nodejs-docs-6.11.3-2.el7.noarch.rpm
• rh-nodejs6-nodejs-6.11.3-2.el6.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1475327

CVEs

• CVE-2017-11499
• CVE-2017-1000381

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
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