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Red Hat: RHSA-2018-2944-01 Important: Node.js OOB Write Security Update

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Calendar Grey October 18, 2018
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat announces an essential rh-nodejs6-nodejs security patch to mitigate significant threats. Please ensure your systems are updated without delay.
An update for rh-nodejs6-nodejs is now available for Red Hat Software Collections

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language.
Security Fix(es):
* nodejs: Out of bounds (OOB) write via UCS-2 encoding (CVE-2018-12115)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat update important security impact out of bounds node.js

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12115 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source: rh-nodejs6-nodejs-6.11.3-6.el6.src.rpm
noarch: rh-nodejs6-nodejs-docs-6.11.3-6.el6.noarch.rpm
x86_64: rh-nodejs6-nodejs-6.11.3-6.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-nodejs6-nodejs-debuginfo-6.11.3-6.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-nodejs6-nodejs-devel-6.11.3-6.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7):
Source: rh-nodejs6-nodejs-6.11.3-6.el6.src.rpm
noarch: rh-nodejs6-nodejs-docs-6.11.3-6.el6.noarch.rpm
x86_64: rh-nodejs6-nodejs-6.11.3-6.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-nodejs6-nodejs-debuginfo-6.11.3-6.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-nodejs6-nodejs-devel-6.11.3-6.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):
Source: rh-nodejs6-nodejs-6.11.3-6.el6.src.rpm
noarch: rh-nodejs6-nodejs-docs-6.11.3-6.el6.noarch.rpm
x86_64: rh-nodejs6-nodejs-6.11.3-6.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-nodejs6-nodejs-debuginfo-6.11.3-6.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-nodejs6-nodejs-devel-6.11.3-6.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: rh-nodejs6-nodejs-6.11.3-7.el7.src.rpm
aarch64: rh-nodejs6-nodejs-6.11.3-7.el7.aarch64.rpm rh-nodejs6-nodejs-debuginfo-6.11.3-7.el7.aarch64.rpm rh-nodejs6-nodejs-devel-6.11.3-7.el7.aarch64.rpm
noarch:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:2944-01
Product: Red Hat Software Collections
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2944
Issue date: 2018-10-18

Topic

An update for rh-nodejs6-nodejs is now available for Red Hat SoftwareCollections.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat update important security impact out of bounds node.js

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3) - noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.4) - noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.5) - noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1620219 - CVE-2018-12115 nodejs: Out of bounds (OOB) write via UCS-2 encoding

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