SUSE: 2016:2470-2 Critical Update for Nodejs4 Security Improvement
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November 1, 2016
An update that fixes 7 vulnerabilities is now available
Summary
This update brings the new upstream nodejs LTS version 4.6.0, fixing bugs and security issues: * Nodejs embedded openssl version update + upgrade to 1.0.2j (CVE-2016-6304, CVE-2016-2183, CVE-2016-2178, CVE-2016-6306, CVE-2016-7052) + remove support for dynamic 3rd party engine modules * http: Properly validate for allowable characters in input user data. This introduces a new case where throw may occur when configuring HTTP responses, users should already be adopting try/catch here. (CVE-2016-5325, bsc#985201) * tls: properly validate wildcard certificates (CVE-2016-7099, bsc#1001652) * buffer: Zero-fill excess bytes in new Buffer objects created with Buffer.concat() Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
References
#1001652 #985201
Cross- CVE-2016-2178 CVE-2016-2183 CVE-2016-5325
CVE-2016-6304 CVE-2016-6306 CVE-2016-7052
CVE-2016-7099
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Web Scripting 12
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2178.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2183.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5325.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6304.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6306.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7052.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7099.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1001652
https://bugzilla.suse.com/985201
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:2470-2
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