RHSA-2020:3042 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for the nodejs:10 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

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 (10.21.0).

Security Fix(es):

• nghttp2: overly large SETTINGS frames can lead to DoS (CVE-2020-11080)
• nodejs-minimist: prototype pollution allows adding or modifying properties of Object.prototype using a constructor or __proto__ payload (CVE-2020-7598)
• nodejs: memory corruption in napi_get_value_string_* functions (CVE-2020-8174)

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 Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1813344 - CVE-2020-7598 nodejs-minimist: prototype pollution allows adding or modifying properties of Object.prototype using a constructor or __proto__ payload
• BZ - 1844929 - CVE-2020-11080 nghttp2: overly large SETTINGS frames can lead to DoS
• BZ - 1845256 - CVE-2020-8174 nodejs: memory corruption in napi_get_value_string_* functions

CVEs

• CVE-2020-7598
• CVE-2020-8174
• CVE-2020-11080

References

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