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openSUSE Leap 42.1: 2016-2496-1 Important: Nodejs Security Update

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Calendar Grey October 11, 2016
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A patch release for Python addresses 7 vulnerabilities on Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04, reinforcing user security.
An update that fixes 8 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update brings the new upstream nodejs LTS version 4.6.0, fixing bugs

and security issues:

* Nodejs embedded openssl version update

+ upgrade to 1.0.2j (CVE-2016-6304, CVE-2016-2183, CVE-2016-2178,

CVE-2016-6306, CVE-2016-7052)

+ remove support for dynamic 3rd party engine modules

* http: Properly validate for allowable characters in input user data.

This introduces a new case where throw may occur when configuring HTTP

responses, users should already be adopting try/catch here.

(CVE-2016-5325, bsc#985201)

* tls: properly validate wildcard certificates (CVE-2016-7099, bsc#1001652)

* buffer: Zero-fill excess bytes in new Buffer objects created with

Buffer.concat()

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-1172=1

- openSUSE 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-1172=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

nodejs-4.6.0-33.1

nodejs-debuginfo-4.6.0-33.1

nodejs-debugsource-4.6.0-33.1

nodejs-devel-4.6.0-33.1

npm-4.6.0-33.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (noarch):

nodejs-docs-4.6.0-33.1

- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):

nodejs-4.6.0-24.2

nodejs-debuginfo-4.6.0-24.2

nodejs-debugsource-4.6.0-24.2

nodejs-devel-4.6.0-24.2

- openSUSE 13.2 (noarch):

nodejs-doc-4.6.0-24.2

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1669.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2178.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2183.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5325.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6304.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6306.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7052.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7099.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1001652

https://bugzilla.suse.com/985201

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:2496-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 openSUSE 13.2 .

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