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

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information