Important: rh-nodejs8-nodejs security update

Synopsis

Important: rh-nodejs8-nodejs security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for rh-nodejs8-nodejs is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

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 following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-nodejs8-nodejs (8.16.0). (BZ#1665986, BZ#1710734)

Security Fix(es):

  • nodejs-tar: Arbitrary file overwrites when extracting tarballs containing a hard-link (CVE-2018-20834)
  • nodejs: HTTP request splitting (CVE-2018-12116)
  • nodejs: Denial of Service with large HTTP headers (CVE-2018-12121)
  • nodejs: Slowloris HTTP Denial of Service (CVE-2018-12122)
  • nodejs: Hostname spoofing in URL parser for javascript protocol (CVE-2018-12123)
  • nodejs: Insufficient Slowloris fix causing DoS via server.headersTimeout bypass (CVE-2019-5737)

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.

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

  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.6 s390x
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.6 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.5 s390x
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.5 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.4 s390x
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.4 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7 s390x
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for ARM) 1 aarch64
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1660998 - CVE-2018-12116 nodejs: HTTP request splitting
  • BZ - 1661002 - CVE-2018-12121 nodejs: Denial of Service with large HTTP headers
  • BZ - 1661005 - CVE-2018-12122 nodejs: Slowloris HTTP Denial of Service
  • BZ - 1661010 - CVE-2018-12123 nodejs: Hostname spoofing in URL parser for javascript protocol
  • BZ - 1690808 - CVE-2019-5737 nodejs: Insufficient Slowloris fix causing DoS via server.headersTimeout bypass
  • BZ - 1702338 - CVE-2018-20834 nodejs-tar: Arbitrary file overwrites when extracting tarballs containing a hard-link

CVEs

References