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openSUSE: 2019:0089-1 Important: nodejs8 Denial of Service Fix

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Calendar Grey January 28, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The latest openSUSE Security Patch tackles critical vulnerabilities in nodejs8, primarily focusing on mitigating denial of service attacks and addressing additional security concerns.
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for nodejs8 to version 8.15.0 fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2018-12121: Fixed a Denial of Service with large HTTP headers (bsc#1117626)

- CVE-2018-12122: Fixed the 'Slowloris' HTTP Denial of Service

(bsc#1117627)

- CVE-2018-12116: Fixed HTTP request splitting (bsc#1117630)

- CVE-2018-12123: Fixed hostname spoofing in URL parser for javascript

protocol (bsc#1117629)

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

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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-2019-89=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (i586 x86_64):

nodejs8-8.15.0-lp150.2.9.1

nodejs8-debuginfo-8.15.0-lp150.2.9.1

nodejs8-debugsource-8.15.0-lp150.2.9.1

nodejs8-devel-8.15.0-lp150.2.9.1

npm8-8.15.0-lp150.2.9.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (noarch):

nodejs8-docs-8.15.0-lp150.2.9.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12116.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12121.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12122.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12123.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1117626

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1117627

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1117629

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1117630

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:0089-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0

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