Topic

An update for the nodejs:10 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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: nodejs (10.19.0).

Security Fix(es):

• nodejs: HTTP request smuggling using malformed Transfer-Encoding header (CVE-2019-15605)
• nodejs: Remotely trigger an assertion on a TLS server with a malformed certificate string (CVE-2019-15604)
• nodejs: HTTP header values do not have trailing optional whitespace trimmed (CVE-2019-15606)
• npm: Symlink reference outside of node_modules folder through the bin field upon installation (CVE-2019-16775)
• npm: Arbitrary file write via constructed entry in the package.json bin field (CVE-2019-16776)
• npm: Global node_modules Binary Overwrite (CVE-2019-16777)

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 x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.1 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.1 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1788301 - CVE-2019-16777 npm: Global node_modules Binary Overwrite
• BZ - 1788305 - CVE-2019-16775 npm: Symlink reference outside of node_modules folder through the bin field upon installation
• BZ - 1788310 - CVE-2019-16776 npm: Arbitrary file write via constructed entry in the package.json bin field
• BZ - 1800364 - CVE-2019-15605 nodejs: HTTP request smuggling using malformed Transfer-Encoding header
• BZ - 1800366 - CVE-2019-15606 nodejs: HTTP header values do not have trailing optional whitespace trimmed
• BZ - 1800367 - CVE-2019-15604 nodejs: Remotely trigger an assertion on a TLS server with a malformed certificate string

CVEs

• CVE-2019-15604
• CVE-2019-15605
• CVE-2019-15606
• CVE-2019-16775
• CVE-2019-16776
• CVE-2019-16777

References

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