Important: rh-nodejs14-nodejs security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Topic

An update for rh-nodejs14-nodejs is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

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: rh-nodejs14-nodejs (14.21.3).

Security Fix(es):

• decode-uri-component: improper input validation resulting in DoS (CVE-2022-38900)
• 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: insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment variable (CVE-2023-23920)

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 Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2153715 - rh-nodejs14-nodejs: Rebase to the latest Nodejs 14 release [rhscl-3]
• 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 - 2170644 - CVE-2022-38900 decode-uri-component: improper input validation resulting in DoS
• BZ - 2171935 - CVE-2023-23918 Node.js: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.mainModule
• BZ - 2172217 - CVE-2023-23920 Node.js: insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment variable

CVEs

• CVE-2022-4904
• CVE-2022-25881
• CVE-2022-38900
• CVE-2023-23918
• CVE-2023-23920

References

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