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openSUSE Leap 15.0 Security Patch for Nodejs8: Moderate Threat

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Calendar Grey September 25, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
openSUSE has issued an update addressing vulnerabilities in nodejs8: moderate severity threats including CVE-2018-0732 and CVE-2018-12115, among others.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Description

This update for nodejs8 to version 8.11.4 fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2018-12115: Fixed an out-of-bounds memory write in Buffer that could

be used to write to memory outside of a Buffer's memory space buffer

(bsc#1105019)

- Upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.2p, which fixed:

- CVE-2018-0732: Client denial-of-service due to large DH parameter

(bsc#1097158)

- ECDSA key extraction via local side-channel

Other changes made:

- Recommend same major version npm package (bsc#1097748)

- Fix parallel/test-tls-passphrase.js test to continue to function with

older versions of OpenSSL library.

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1047=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (i586 x86_64):

nodejs8-8.11.4-lp150.2.6.1

nodejs8-debuginfo-8.11.4-lp150.2.6.1

nodejs8-debugsource-8.11.4-lp150.2.6.1

nodejs8-devel-8.11.4-lp150.2.6.1

npm8-8.11.4-lp150.2.6.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (noarch):

nodejs8-docs-8.11.4-lp150.2.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-0732.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12115.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1097158

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1097748

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1105019

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2855-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0 le.

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