RHSA-2023:0321 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for nodejs and nodejs-nodemon is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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 (16.18.1), nodejs-nodemon (2.0.20).

Security Fix(es):

• minimist: prototype pollution (CVE-2021-44906)
• nodejs-minimatch: ReDoS via the braceExpand function (CVE-2022-3517)
• nodejs: HTTP Request Smuggling due to incorrect parsing of header fields (CVE-2022-35256)
• nodejs: DNS rebinding in inspect via invalid octal IP address (CVE-2022-43548)

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: Packaged version of undici does not fit with declared version. [rhel-9] (BZ#2151627)

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 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.2 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.4 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.4 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.2 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2066009 - CVE-2021-44906 minimist: prototype pollution
• BZ - 2130518 - CVE-2022-35256 nodejs: HTTP Request Smuggling due to incorrect parsing of header fields
• BZ - 2134609 - CVE-2022-3517 nodejs-minimatch: ReDoS via the braceExpand function
• BZ - 2140911 - CVE-2022-43548 nodejs: DNS rebinding in inspect via invalid octal IP address
• BZ - 2142808 - nodejs: Rebase to the latest Nodejs 16 release [rhel-9] [rhel-9.1.0.z]

CVEs

• CVE-2021-44906
• CVE-2022-3517
• CVE-2022-35256
• CVE-2022-43548

References

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