Important: nodejs security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Topic

An update for nodejs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support.

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 package has been upgraded to a later upstream version: nodejs (16.20.2).

Security Fix(es):

• nodejs: Permissions policies can be bypassed via Module._load (CVE-2023-32002)
• 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: Fetch API did not protect against CRLF injection in host headers (CVE-2023-23936)
• nodejs: mainModule.proto bypass experimental policy mechanism (CVE-2023-30581)
• nodejs: process interuption due to invalid Public Key information in x509 certificates (CVE-2023-30588)
• nodejs: HTTP Request Smuggling via Empty headers separated by CR (CVE-2023-30589)
• nodejs: DiffieHellman do not generate keys after setting a private key (CVE-2023-30590)
• nodejs: Permissions policies can impersonate other modules in using module.constructor.createRequire() (CVE-2023-32006)
• nodejs: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.binding (CVE-2023-32559)
• 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.

Bug Fix(es):

• nodejs: Rebase to the latest Nodejs 16 release [rhel-9] (BZ#2236435, BZ#2178078, BZ#2223335)

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 - Extended Update Support 9.0 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.0 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.0 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.0 s390x

Fixes

• 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 - 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 - 2178078 - nodejs: Rebase to the latest Nodejs 16 release [rhel-9] [rhel-9.0.0.z]
• BZ - 2219824 - CVE-2023-30581 nodejs: mainModule.proto bypass experimental policy mechanism
• BZ - 2219838 - CVE-2023-30588 nodejs: process interuption due to invalid Public Key information in x509 certificates
• BZ - 2219841 - CVE-2023-30589 nodejs: HTTP Request Smuggling via Empty headers separated by CR
• BZ - 2219842 - CVE-2023-30590 nodejs: DiffieHellman do not generate keys after setting a private key
• BZ - 2223335 - nodejs: Rebase to the latest Nodejs 16 release [rhel-9] [rhel-9.0.0.z]
• BZ - 2230948 - CVE-2023-32002 nodejs: Permissions policies can be bypassed via Module._load
• BZ - 2230955 - CVE-2023-32006 nodejs: Permissions policies can impersonate other modules in using module.constructor.createRequire()
• BZ - 2230956 - CVE-2023-32559 nodejs: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.binding
• BZ - 2236435 - nodejs: Rebase to the latest Nodejs 16 release [rhel-9] [rhel-9.0.0.z]

CVEs

• CVE-2022-4904
• CVE-2022-25881
• CVE-2023-23920
• CVE-2023-23936
• CVE-2023-24807
• CVE-2023-30581
• CVE-2023-30588
• CVE-2023-30589
• CVE-2023-30590
• CVE-2023-32002
• CVE-2023-32006
• CVE-2023-32559

References

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