Issued:
2023-10-09
Updated:
2023-10-09

RHSA-2023:5533 - Important: nodejs security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Synopsis

Important: nodejs security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for nodejs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support.

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.

The package has been upgraded to a later upstream version: nodejs (16.20.2).

Security Fix(es):

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

  • c-ares: buffer overflow in config_sortlist() due to missing string length check (CVE-2022-4904)

  • http-cache-semantics: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability (CVE-2022-25881)

  • Node.js: Fetch API did not protect against CRLF injection in host headers (CVE-2023-23936)

  • nodejs: mainModule.proto bypass experimental policy mechanism (CVE-2023-30581)

  • nodejs: process interuption due to invalid Public Key information in x509 certificates (CVE-2023-30588)

  • nodejs: HTTP Request Smuggling via Empty headers separated by CR (CVE-2023-30589)

  • nodejs: DiffieHellman do not generate keys after setting a private key (CVE-2023-30590)

  • 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)

  • Node.js: insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment variable (CVE-2023-23920)

  • Node.js: Regular Expression Denial of Service in Headers fetch API (CVE-2023-24807)

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#2236435, BZ#2178078, BZ#2223335)

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

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions9.0x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support9.0x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support9.0ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support9.0s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates9.0s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support9.0aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates9.0aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions9.0ppc64le

Updated Packages

  • nodejs-debuginfo-16.20.2-1.el9_0.aarch64.rpm
  • npm-8.19.4-1.16.20.2.1.el9_0.aarch64.rpm
  • nodejs-debugsource-16.20.2-1.el9_0.aarch64.rpm
  • nodejs-libs-debuginfo-16.20.2-1.el9_0.s390x.rpm
  • nodejs-full-i18n-16.20.2-1.el9_0.s390x.rpm
  • npm-8.19.4-1.16.20.2.1.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • nodejs-debugsource-16.20.2-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm
  • nodejs-debugsource-16.20.2-1.el9_0.i686.rpm
  • npm-8.19.4-1.16.20.2.1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm
  • nodejs-full-i18n-16.20.2-1.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • nodejs-debuginfo-16.20.2-1.el9_0.i686.rpm
  • nodejs-full-i18n-16.20.2-1.el9_0.aarch64.rpm
  • nodejs-16.20.2-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm
  • nodejs-libs-16.20.2-1.el9_0.s390x.rpm
  • nodejs-16.20.2-1.el9_0.aarch64.rpm
  • nodejs-16.20.2-1.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • nodejs-libs-16.20.2-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm
  • nodejs-full-i18n-16.20.2-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm
  • nodejs-libs-16.20.2-1.el9_0.i686.rpm
  • nodejs-libs-16.20.2-1.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • npm-8.19.4-1.16.20.2.1.el9_0.s390x.rpm
  • nodejs-debuginfo-16.20.2-1.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • nodejs-libs-debuginfo-16.20.2-1.el9_0.i686.rpm
  • nodejs-16.20.2-1.el9_0.s390x.rpm
  • nodejs-debugsource-16.20.2-1.el9_0.s390x.rpm
  • nodejs-libs-debuginfo-16.20.2-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm
  • nodejs-16.20.2-1.el9_0.src.rpm
  • nodejs-debuginfo-16.20.2-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm
  • nodejs-debuginfo-16.20.2-1.el9_0.s390x.rpm
  • nodejs-libs-debuginfo-16.20.2-1.el9_0.aarch64.rpm
  • nodejs-libs-debuginfo-16.20.2-1.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • nodejs-debugsource-16.20.2-1.el9_0.x86_64.rpm
  • nodejs-docs-16.20.2-1.el9_0.noarch.rpm
  • nodejs-libs-16.20.2-1.el9_0.aarch64.rpm

Fixes

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References

Additional information