RHSA-2025:4459 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for the nodejs:22 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.

Security Fix(es):

• c-ares: c-ares has a use-after-free in read_answers() (CVE-2025-31498)
• SQLite: integer overflow in SQLite (CVE-2025-3277)

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 IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2358271 - CVE-2025-31498 c-ares: c-ares has a use-after-free in read_answers()
• BZ - 2359553 - CVE-2025-3277 SQLite: integer overflow in SQLite
• RHEL-78761 - nodejs:22/nodejs: Rebase to the latest Nodejs 22 release [rhel-8]
• RHEL-88883 - Run the nodejs unit tests properly as part of the build [8.10]

CVEs

• CVE-2025-3277
• CVE-2025-31498

References

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