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Essential Node.js Security Patch RHSA-2020-0598-01 for Red Hat Linux

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Calendar Grey February 25, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Significant Node.js upgrade launched for Red Hat, addressing serious security vulnerabilities such as HTTP request smuggling and TLS configuration problems.
An update for the nodejs:12 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: nodejs (12.16.1).
Security Fix(es):
* nodejs: HTTP request smuggling using malformed Transfer-Encoding header (CVE-2019-15605)
* nodejs: Remotely trigger an assertion on a TLS server with a malformed certificate string (CVE-2019-15604)
* nodejs: HTTP header values do not have trailing optional whitespace trimmed (CVE-2019-15606)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update important red hat enterprise linux http request nodejs tls server

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-15604 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-15605 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-15606 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: nodejs-12.16.1-1.module+el8.1.0+5811+44509afe.src.rpm nodejs-nodemon-1.18.3-1.module+el8.1.0+3369+37ae6a45.src.rpm nodejs-packaging-17-3.module+el8.1.0+3369+37ae6a45.src.rpm
aarch64: nodejs-12.16.1-1.module+el8.1.0+5811+44509afe.aarch64.rpm nodejs-debuginfo-12.16.1-1.module+el8.1.0+5811+44509afe.aarch64.rpm nodejs-debugsource-12.16.1-1.module+el8.1.0+5811+44509afe.aarch64.rpm nodejs-devel-12.16.1-1.module+el8.1.0+5811+44509afe.aarch64.rpm npm-6.13.4-1.12.16.1.1.module+el8.1.0+5811+44509afe.aarch64.rpm
noarch: nodejs-docs-12.16.1-1.module+el8.1.0+5811+44509afe.noarch.rpm nodejs-nodemon-1.18.3-1.module+el8.1.0+3369+37ae6a45.noarch.rpm nodejs-packaging-17-3.module+el8.1.0+3369+37ae6a45.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: nodejs-12.16.1-1.module+el8.1.0+5811+44509afe.ppc64le.rpm nodejs-debuginfo-12.16.1-1.module+el8.1.0+5811+44509afe.ppc64le.rpm nodejs-debugsource-12.16.1-1.module+el8.1.0+5811+44509afe.ppc64le.rpm nodejs-devel-12.16.1-1.module+el8.1.0+5811+44509afe.ppc64le.rpm npm-6.13.4-1.12.16.1.1.module+el8.1.0+5811+44509afe.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: nodejs-12.16.1-1.module+el8.1.0+5811+44509afe.s390x.rpm nodejs-debuginfo-12.16.1-1.module+el8.1.0+5811+44509afe.s390x.rpm nodejs-debugsource-12.16.1-1.module+el8.1.0+5811+44509afe.s390x.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:0598-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0598
Issue date: 2020-02-25

Topic

An update for the nodejs:12 module is now available for Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 8.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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update important red hat enterprise linux http request nodejs tls server

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1800364 - CVE-2019-15605 nodejs: HTTP request smuggling using malformed Transfer-Encoding header

1800366 - CVE-2019-15606 nodejs: HTTP header values do not have trailing optional whitespace trimmed

1800367 - CVE-2019-15604 nodejs: Remotely trigger an assertion on a TLS server with a malformed certificate string

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