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SUSE: 2021:0208-2 Moderate: Nodejs16 Memory Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey January 13, 2021
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SUSE has released a security patch for nodejs14 that rectifies a variety of security flaws and vulnerabilities with severe potential risks.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for nodejs14 fixes the following issues: - New upstream LTS version 14.15.4: * 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

References

#1180553 #1180554

Cross- CVE-2020-8265 CVE-2020-8287

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Web Scripting 12

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

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

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1180553

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1180554

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:0107-1
Rating: moderate

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