RHSA-2023:5533 — Security Advisory

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.

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)