Moderate: nodejs:16 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Topic

An update for the nodejs:16 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 (16.19.1).

Security Fix(es):

• glob-parent: Regular Expression Denial of Service (CVE-2021-35065)
• c-ares: buffer overflow in config_sortlist() due to missing string length check (CVE-2022-4904)
• http-cache-semantics: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability (CVE-2022-25881)
• Node.js: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.mainModule (CVE-2023-23918)
• Node.js: OpenSSL error handling issues in nodejs crypto library (CVE-2023-23919)
• Node.js: Fetch API did not protect against CRLF injection in host headers (CVE-2023-23936)
• Node.js: insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment variable (CVE-2023-23920)
• Node.js: Regular Expression Denial of Service in Headers fetch API (CVE-2023-24807)

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 - 2156324 - CVE-2021-35065 glob-parent: Regular Expression Denial of Service
• BZ - 2165824 - CVE-2022-25881 http-cache-semantics: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability
• BZ - 2168631 - CVE-2022-4904 c-ares: buffer overflow in config_sortlist() due to missing string length check
• BZ - 2171935 - CVE-2023-23918 Node.js: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.mainModule
• BZ - 2172170 - CVE-2023-23919 Node.js: OpenSSL error handling issues in nodejs crypto library
• BZ - 2172190 - CVE-2023-23936 Node.js: Fetch API did not protect against CRLF injection in host headers
• BZ - 2172204 - CVE-2023-24807 Node.js: Regular Expression Denial of Service in Headers fetch API
• BZ - 2172217 - CVE-2023-23920 Node.js: insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment variable
• BZ - 2178142 - nodejs:16/nodejs: Rebase to the latest Nodejs 16 release [rhel-8] [rhel-8.7.0.z]

CVEs

• CVE-2021-35065
• CVE-2022-4904
• CVE-2022-25881
• CVE-2023-23918
• CVE-2023-23919
• CVE-2023-23920
• CVE-2023-23936
• CVE-2023-24807

References

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