Moderate: nodejs:12 security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Moderate: nodejs:12 security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for the nodejs:12 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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

Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language.

Security Fix(es):

• nodejs-y18n: prototype pollution vulnerability (CVE-2020-7774)
  
• c-ares: ares_parse_{a,aaaa}_reply() insufficient naddrttls validation DoS (CVE-2020-8277)
  
• nodejs-ajv: prototype pollution via crafted JSON schema in ajv.validate function (CVE-2020-15366)
  

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):

• yarn install crashes with nodejs:12 on aarch64 (BZ#1901045)

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 Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1857977 - CVE-2020-15366 nodejs-ajv: prototype pollution via crafted JSON schema in ajv.validate function
• BZ - 1898554 - CVE-2020-8277 c-ares: ares_parse_{a,aaaa}_reply() insufficient naddrttls validation DoS
• BZ - 1898680 - CVE-2020-7774 nodejs-y18n: prototype pollution vulnerability

CVEs

• CVE-2020-7774
• CVE-2020-8277
• CVE-2020-15366

References

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