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openSUSE 15.5: SUSE-SU-2024:4300-1 moderate: nodejs20 denial of service

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Calendar Grey December 12, 2024
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Critical patch released for nodejs20 tackles potential DoS vulnerability affecting openSUSE. Update now to resolve concerns and improve overall system security.
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description

This update for nodejs20 fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2024-21538: Fixed regular expression denial of service in cross-spawn

dependency (bsc#1233856)

Other fixes: \- Updated to 20.18.1: * Experimental Network Inspection Support in

Node.js * Exposes X509_V_FLAG_PARTIAL_CHAIN to tls.createSecureContext * New

option for vm.createContext() to create a context with a freezable globalThis *

buffer: optimize createFromString \- Changes in 20.17.0: * module: support

require()ing synchronous ESM graphs * path: add matchesGlob method * stream:

expose DuplexPair API \- Changes in 20.16.0: * process: add

process.getBuiltinModule(id) * inspector: fix disable async hooks on

Debugger.setAsyncCallStackDepth * buffer: add .bytes() method to Blob

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service software update patch openSUSE nodejs

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE 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 15.5

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.5-2024-4300=1 SUSE-2024-4300=1

* Web and Scripting Module 15-SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Web-Scripting-15-SP5-2024-4300=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* npm20-20.18.1-150500.11.15.1

* nodejs20-debugsource-20.18.1-150500.11.15.1

* nodejs20-20.18.1-150500.11.15.1

* nodejs20-debuginfo-20.18.1-150500.11.15.1

* nodejs20-devel-20.18.1-150500.11.15.1

* corepack20-20.18.1-150500.11.15.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (noarch)

* nodejs20-docs-20.18.1-150500.11.15.1

* Web and Scripting Module 15-SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* npm20-20.18.1-150500.11.15.1

* nodejs20-debugsource-20.18.1-150500.11.15.1

* nodejs20-20.18.1-150500.11.15.1

* nodejs20-debuginfo-20.18.1-150500.11.15.1

* nodejs20-devel-20.18.1-150500.11.15.1

* Web and Scripting Module 15-SP5 (noarch)

* nodejs20-docs-20.18.1-150500.11.15.1

References

* bsc#1233856

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-21538.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1233856

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2024:4300-1
Release Date: 2024-12-12T08:10:17Z
Affected Products: * openSUSE Leap 15.5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 * Web and Scripting Module 15-SP5

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service software update patch openSUSE nodejs

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