Important: nodejs:18 security update

Topic

An update for the nodejs:18 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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: nodejs (18.9.1). (BZ#2130559, BZ#2131750)

Security Fix(es):

• nodejs: weak randomness in WebCrypto keygen (CVE-2022-35255)
• nodejs: HTTP Request Smuggling due to incorrect parsing of header fields (CVE-2022-35256)

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 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 - 2130517 - CVE-2022-35255 nodejs: weak randomness in WebCrypto keygen
• BZ - 2130518 - CVE-2022-35256 nodejs: HTTP Request Smuggling due to incorrect parsing of header fields

CVEs

• CVE-2022-35255
• CVE-2022-35256

References

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