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An update for rh-nodejs8-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-nodejs8-nodejs (8.16.1).

Security Fix(es):

• HTTP/2: large amount of data requests leads to denial of service (CVE-2019-9511)
• HTTP/2: flood using PING frames results in unbounded memory growth (CVE-2019-9512)
• HTTP/2: flood using PRIORITY frames results in excessive resource consumption (CVE-2019-9513)
• HTTP/2: flood using HEADERS frames results in unbounded memory growth (CVE-2019-9514)
• HTTP/2: flood using SETTINGS frames results in unbounded memory growth (CVE-2019-9515)
• HTTP/2: 0-length headers lead to denial of service (CVE-2019-9516)
• HTTP/2: request for large response leads to denial of service (CVE-2019-9517)
• HTTP/2: flood using empty frames results in excessive resource consumption (CVE-2019-9518)

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 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.7 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.6 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.5 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.5 ppc64le
• 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 Server for ARM) 1 aarch64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1735645 - CVE-2019-9512 HTTP/2: flood using PING frames results in unbounded memory growth
• BZ - 1735741 - CVE-2019-9513 HTTP/2: flood using PRIORITY frames results in excessive resource consumption
• BZ - 1735744 - CVE-2019-9514 HTTP/2: flood using HEADERS frames results in unbounded memory growth
• BZ - 1735745 - CVE-2019-9515 HTTP/2: flood using SETTINGS frames results in unbounded memory growth
• BZ - 1735749 - CVE-2019-9518 HTTP/2: flood using empty frames results in excessive resource consumption
• BZ - 1741860 - CVE-2019-9511 HTTP/2: large amount of data requests leads to denial of service
• BZ - 1741864 - CVE-2019-9516 HTTP/2: 0-length headers lead to denial of service
• BZ - 1741868 - CVE-2019-9517 HTTP/2: request for large response leads to denial of service

CVEs

• CVE-2019-9511
• CVE-2019-9512
• CVE-2019-9513
• CVE-2019-9514
• CVE-2019-9515
• CVE-2019-9516
• CVE-2019-9517
• CVE-2019-9518

References

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