9.8 - RHSA-2020:0598

Problem Description:

An update for the nodejs:12 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.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, 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: nodejs (12.16.1).

Security Fix(es):

* nodejs: HTTP request smuggling using malformed Transfer-Encoding header (CVE-2019-15605)

* nodejs: Remotely trigger an assertion on a TLS server with a malformed certificate string (CVE-2019-15604)

* nodejs: HTTP header values do not have trailing optional whitespace trimmed (CVE-2019-15606)

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/):

1800364 - CVE-2019-15605 nodejs: HTTP request smuggling using malformed Transfer-Encoding header 1800366 - CVE-2019-15606 nodejs: HTTP header values do not have trailing optional whitespace trimmed 1800367 - CVE-2019-15604 nodejs: Remotely trigger an assertion on a TLS server with a malformed certificate string