Issued:

2023-10-09

Updated:

2023-10-09

RHSA-2023:5532 - Important: nodejs security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Important: nodejs security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for nodejs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.

Security Fix(es):

• nodejs: Permissions policies can be bypassed via Module._load (CVE-2023-32002)

• nodejs: Permissions policies can impersonate other modules in using module.constructor.createRequire() (CVE-2023-32006)

• nodejs: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.binding (CVE-2023-32559)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fix(es):

• nodejs: Rebase to the latest Nodejs 16 release [rhel-9] (BZ#2236434)

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

• nodejs-16.20.2-1.el9_2.src.rpm
• npm-8.19.4-1.16.20.2.1.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
• nodejs-debuginfo-16.20.2-1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm
• nodejs-16.20.2-1.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
• nodejs-debuginfo-16.20.2-1.el9_2.s390x.rpm
• nodejs-libs-debuginfo-16.20.2-1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm
• nodejs-libs-16.20.2-1.el9_2.i686.rpm
• nodejs-libs-16.20.2-1.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm
• nodejs-full-i18n-16.20.2-1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm
• nodejs-full-i18n-16.20.2-1.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
• nodejs-libs-debuginfo-16.20.2-1.el9_2.i686.rpm
• nodejs-debugsource-16.20.2-1.el9_2.i686.rpm
• nodejs-debugsource-16.20.2-1.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
• nodejs-debugsource-16.20.2-1.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm
• npm-8.19.4-1.16.20.2.1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm
• nodejs-full-i18n-16.20.2-1.el9_2.s390x.rpm
• nodejs-libs-debuginfo-16.20.2-1.el9_2.s390x.rpm
• nodejs-full-i18n-16.20.2-1.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm
• nodejs-libs-16.20.2-1.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
• npm-8.19.4-1.16.20.2.1.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm
• npm-8.19.4-1.16.20.2.1.el9_2.s390x.rpm
• nodejs-16.20.2-1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm
• nodejs-libs-debuginfo-16.20.2-1.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm
• nodejs-debugsource-16.20.2-1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm
• nodejs-debugsource-16.20.2-1.el9_2.s390x.rpm
• nodejs-16.20.2-1.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm
• nodejs-debuginfo-16.20.2-1.el9_2.i686.rpm
• nodejs-libs-16.20.2-1.el9_2.s390x.rpm
• nodejs-debuginfo-16.20.2-1.el9_2.ppc64le.rpm
• nodejs-libs-debuginfo-16.20.2-1.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
• nodejs-debuginfo-16.20.2-1.el9_2.x86_64.rpm
• nodejs-docs-16.20.2-1.el9_2.noarch.rpm
• nodejs-16.20.2-1.el9_2.s390x.rpm
• nodejs-libs-16.20.2-1.el9_2.aarch64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 2230948
• This content is not included.BZ - 2230955
• This content is not included.BZ - 2230956
• This content is not included.BZ - 2236434

CVEs

• CVE-2023-32002
• CVE-2023-32006
• CVE-2023-32559

References

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

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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