RHSA-2023:5533 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for nodejs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 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 package has been upgraded to a later upstream version: nodejs (16.20.2).

Security Fix(es):

• nodejs: Permissions policies can be bypassed via Module._load (CVE-2023-32002)
• c-ares: buffer overflow in config_sortlist() due to missing string length check (CVE-2022-4904)
• http-cache-semantics: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability (CVE-2022-25881)
• Node.js: Fetch API did not protect against CRLF injection in host headers (CVE-2023-23936)
• nodejs: mainModule.proto bypass experimental policy mechanism (CVE-2023-30581)
• nodejs: process interuption due to invalid Public Key information in x509 certificates (CVE-2023-30588)
• nodejs: HTTP Request Smuggling via Empty headers separated by CR (CVE-2023-30589)
• nodejs: DiffieHellman do not generate keys after setting a private key (CVE-2023-30590)
• nodejs: Permissions policies can impersonate other modules in using module.constructor.createRequire() (CVE-2023-32006)
• nodejs: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.binding (CVE-2023-32559)
• Node.js: insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment variable (CVE-2023-23920)
• Node.js: Regular Expression Denial of Service in Headers fetch API (CVE-2023-24807)

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: Rebase to the latest Nodejs 16 release [rhel-9] (BZ#2236435, BZ#2178078, BZ#2223335)

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 9.0 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.0 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.0 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.0 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2165824 - CVE-2022-25881 http-cache-semantics: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability
• BZ - 2168631 - CVE-2022-4904 c-ares: buffer overflow in config_sortlist() due to missing string length check
• BZ - 2172190 - CVE-2023-23936 Node.js: Fetch API did not protect against CRLF injection in host headers
• BZ - 2172204 - CVE-2023-24807 Node.js: Regular Expression Denial of Service in Headers fetch API
• BZ - 2172217 - CVE-2023-23920 Node.js: insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment variable
• BZ - 2178078 - nodejs: Rebase to the latest Nodejs 16 release [rhel-9] [rhel-9.0.0.z]
• BZ - 2219824 - CVE-2023-30581 nodejs: mainModule.proto bypass experimental policy mechanism
• BZ - 2219838 - CVE-2023-30588 nodejs: process interuption due to invalid Public Key information in x509 certificates
• BZ - 2219841 - CVE-2023-30589 nodejs: HTTP Request Smuggling via Empty headers separated by CR
• BZ - 2219842 - CVE-2023-30590 nodejs: DiffieHellman do not generate keys after setting a private key
• BZ - 2223335 - nodejs: Rebase to the latest Nodejs 16 release [rhel-9] [rhel-9.0.0.z]
• BZ - 2230948 - CVE-2023-32002 nodejs: Permissions policies can be bypassed via Module._load
• BZ - 2230955 - CVE-2023-32006 nodejs: Permissions policies can impersonate other modules in using module.constructor.createRequire()
• BZ - 2230956 - CVE-2023-32559 nodejs: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.binding
• BZ - 2236435 - nodejs: Rebase to the latest Nodejs 16 release [rhel-9] [rhel-9.0.0.z]

CVEs

• CVE-2022-4904
• CVE-2022-25881
• CVE-2023-23920
• CVE-2023-23936
• CVE-2023-24807
• CVE-2023-30581
• CVE-2023-30588
• CVE-2023-30589
• CVE-2023-30590
• CVE-2023-32002
• CVE-2023-32006
• CVE-2023-32559

References

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