Moderate: nodejs and nodejs-tough-cookie security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Synopsis

Moderate: nodejs and nodejs-tough-cookie security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for nodejs-tough-cookie and nodejs is now available for Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3.

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

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is the company's cloud computing
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution designed for on-premise or private
cloud deployments.

Security Fix(es):

• A regular expression denial of service flaw was found in Tough-Cookie. An
  attacker able to make an application using Touch-Cookie to parse a
  sufficiently large HTTP request Cookie header could cause the application
  to consume an excessive amount of CPU. (CVE-2016-1000232)
  
• It was found that the reason argument in ServerResponse#writeHead() was
  not properly validated. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to
  conduct an HTTP response splitting attack via a specially-crafted HTTP
  request. (CVE-2016-5325)
  

This advisory contains the RPM packages for this release. See the following
advisory for the container images fixes for this release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016:2100

Solution

For details on how to apply this update in OpenShift Container Platform 3, see the Solution section of the following advisory:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016:2100

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.2 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1346910 - CVE-2016-5325 nodejs: reason argument in ServerResponse#writeHead() not properly validated
• BZ - 1359818 - CVE-2016-1000232 nodejs-tough-cookie: regular expression DoS via Cookie header with many semicolons
• BZ - 1382854 - [3.1,3.2,3.3] nodejs rpm updates for logging-auth-proxy

CVEs

• CVE-2016-1000232
• CVE-2016-5325

References

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