Moderate: nodejs:18 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Topic

An update for the nodejs:18 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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 (18.12.1). (BZ#2142809, BZ#2142830, BZ#2142834, BZ#2142856)

Security Fix(es):

• nodejs-minimatch: ReDoS via the braceExpand function (CVE-2022-3517)
• nodejs: DNS rebinding in inspect via invalid octal IP address (CVE-2022-43548)

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 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2134609 - CVE-2022-3517 nodejs-minimatch: ReDoS via the braceExpand function
• BZ - 2140911 - CVE-2022-43548 nodejs: DNS rebinding in inspect via invalid octal IP address
• BZ - 2142809 - nodejs:18/nodejs: Rebase to the latest Nodejs 18 release [rhel-9] [rhel-9.1.0.z]

CVEs

• CVE-2022-3517
• CVE-2022-43548

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.1_release_notes/index