RHSA-2021:0741 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for the nodejs:10 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 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 following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: nodejs (10.24.0).

Security Fix(es):

• nodejs: HTTP2 'unknownProtocol' cause DoS by resource exhaustion (CVE-2021-22883)
• nodejs: DNS rebinding in --inspect (CVE-2021-22884)

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

Fixes

• BZ - 1932014 - CVE-2021-22883 nodejs: HTTP2 'unknownProtocol' cause DoS by resource exhaustion
• BZ - 1932024 - CVE-2021-22884 nodejs: DNS rebinding in --inspect

CVEs

• CVE-2021-22883
• CVE-2021-22884

References

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