6.4 - RHSA-2019:1821

Problem Description:

An update for rh-nodejs8-nodejs is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

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.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.4) - noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.5) - noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6) - noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

3. 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: rh-nodejs8-nodejs (8.16.0). (BZ#1665986, BZ#1710734)

Security Fix(es):

* nodejs-tar: Arbitrary file overwrites when extracting tarballs containing a hard-link (CVE-2018-20834)

* nodejs: HTTP request splitting (CVE-2018-12116)

* nodejs: Denial of Service with large HTTP headers (CVE-2018-12121)

* nodejs: Slowloris HTTP Denial of Service (CVE-2018-12122)

* nodejs: Hostname spoofing in URL parser for javascript protocol (CVE-2018-12123)

* nodejs: Insufficient Slowloris fix causing DoS via server.headersTimeout bypass (CVE-2019-5737)

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.

4. 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

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1660998 - CVE-2018-12116 nodejs: HTTP request splitting 1661002 - CVE-2018-12121 nodejs: Denial of Service with large HTTP headers 1661005 - CVE-2018-12122 nodejs: Slowloris HTTP Denial of Service 1661010 - CVE-2018-12123 nodejs: Hostname spoofing in URL parser for javascript protocol 1690808 - CVE-2019-5737 nodejs: Insufficient Slowloris fix causing DoS via server.headersTimeout bypass 1702338 - CVE-2018-20834 nodejs-tar: Arbitrary file overwrites when extracting tarballs containing a hard-link