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Fedora 37: FEDORA-2023-61e40652be High: Node.js 16.20.1 Security Update

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Calendar Grey July 21, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The upgrade to Node.js version 16.20.1 for Fedora addresses critical security vulnerabilities and improves overall performance.
## 2023-06-20, Version 16.20.1 'Gallium' (LTS), @RafaelGSS This is a security release

Summary

Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime \

for easily building fast, scalable network applications. \

Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that \

makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive \

real-time applications that run across distributed devices.}

## 2023-06-20, Version 16.20.1 'Gallium' (LTS), @RafaelGSS This is a security

release. ### Notable Changes The following CVEs are fixed in this release: *

[CVE-2023-30581](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-30581):

`mainModule.__proto__` Bypass Experimental Policy Mechanism (High) *

[CVE-2023-30585](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-30585):

Privilege escalation via Malicious Registry Key manipulation during Node.js

installer repair process (Medium) * [CVE-2023-30588](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-30588): Process interuption due to invalid Public

Key information in x509 certificates (Medium) *

[CVE-2023-30589](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-30589):

HTTP Request Smuggling via Empty headers separated by CR (Medium) *

[CVE-2023-30590](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-30590):

DiffieHellman does not generate keys after setting a private key (Medium) *

OpenSSL Security Releases * [OpenSSL security advisory 28th

March](https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20230328.txt). * [OpenSSL security

advisory 20th April](https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20230420.txt). *

[OpenSSL security advisory 30th

May](https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20230530.txt) * c-ares vulnerabilities:

* [GHSA-9g78-jv2r-p7vc](https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/security/advisories/GHSA-9g78-jv2r-p7vc) * [GHSA-8r8p-23f3-64c2](https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/security/advisories/GHSA-8r8p-23f3-64c2)

* [GHSA-54xr-f67r-4pc4](https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/security/advisories/GHSA-54xr-f67r-4pc4) * [GHSA-x6mf-cxr9-8q6v](https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/security/advisories/GHSA-x6mf-cxr9-8q6v) More detailed information on each of the vulnerabilities can be

found in [June 2023 Security

Releases](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/june-2023-security-releases/)

blog post.

* Wed Jun 21 2023 Stephen Gallagher - 1:16.20.1-1

- Update to security release 16.20.1

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-61e40652be' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 37
Version: 16.20.1
Release: 1.fc37
Summary: JavaScript runtime

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