Moderate: nodejs:14 security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Moderate: nodejs:14 security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for the nodejs:14 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.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: nodejs (14.15.4).

Security Fix(es):

  • nodejs-npm-user-validate: improper input validation when validating user emails leads to ReDoS (CVE-2020-7754)
  • nodejs-y18n: prototype pollution vulnerability (CVE-2020-7774)
  • nodejs-ini: prototype pollution via malicious INI file (CVE-2020-7788)
  • nodejs: use-after-free in the TLS implementation (CVE-2020-8265)
  • 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)
  • nodejs: HTTP request smuggling via two copies of a header field in an http request (CVE-2020-8287)

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:14 on aarch64 (BZ#1916465)

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 - 1892430 - CVE-2020-7754 nodejs-npm-user-validate: improper input validation when validating user emails leads to ReDoS
  • 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
  • BZ - 1907444 - CVE-2020-7788 nodejs-ini: prototype pollution via malicious INI file
  • BZ - 1912854 - CVE-2020-8265 nodejs: use-after-free in the TLS implementation
  • BZ - 1912863 - CVE-2020-8287 nodejs: HTTP request smuggling via two copies of a header field in an http request

CVEs

References