RHSA-2023:4033 — Security Advisory

An update for the nodejs:16 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 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.

Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language.

Security Fix(es):

• c-ares: 0-byte UDP payload Denial of Service (CVE-2023-32067)

• c-ares: Buffer Underwrite in ares_inet_net_pton() (CVE-2023-31130)

• c-ares: Insufficient randomness in generation of DNS query IDs (CVE-2023-31147)

• c-ares: AutoTools does not set CARES_RANDOM_FILE during cross compilation (CVE-2023-31124)

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.