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openSUSE Leap 15.2: 2021:0064-1 Moderate: Nodejs12 Memory Exploit Fix

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Calendar Grey January 15, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Patch resolves three vulnerabilities in nodejs12 on Fedora, enhancing performance and mitigating security threats.
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for nodejs12 fixes the following issues:

- New upstream LTS version 12.20.1:

* CVE-2020-8265: use-after-free in TLSWrap (High) bug in TLS

implementation. When writing to a TLS enabled socket,

node::StreamBase::Write calls node::TLSWrap::DoWrite with a freshly

allocated WriteWrap object as first argument. If the DoWrite method

does not return an error, this object is passed back to the caller as

part of a StreamWriteResult structure. This may be exploited to

corrupt memory leading to a Denial of Service or potentially other

exploits (bsc#1180553)

* CVE-2020-8287: HTTP Request Smuggling allow two copies of a header

field in a http request. For example, two Transfer-Encoding header

fields. In this case Node.js identifies the first header field and

ignores the second. This can lead to HTTP Request Smuggling

(https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/444.html). (bsc#1180554)

*...

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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 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-64=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

nodejs12-12.20.1-lp152.3.9.1

nodejs12-debuginfo-12.20.1-lp152.3.9.1

nodejs12-debugsource-12.20.1-lp152.3.9.1

nodejs12-devel-12.20.1-lp152.3.9.1

npm12-12.20.1-lp152.3.9.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (noarch):

nodejs12-docs-12.20.1-lp152.3.9.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1971.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8265.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8277.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8287.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178882

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179491

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1180553

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1180554

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0064-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 .

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