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SUSE: 2024:4300-1 moderate vulnerability for nodejs20 DoS remedy

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Calendar Grey December 12, 2024
Dist Suse Esm H88
A new security patch for nodejs20 addresses a denial of service vulnerability affecting various SUSE versions. Keep informed!
* bsc#1233856 Cross-References: * CVE-2024-21538

Summary

## 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 ## Patch Instructions:

References

* bsc#1233856

Cross-

* CVE-2024-21538

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2024-21538 ( SUSE ): 5.6

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2024-21538 ( SUSE ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2024-21538 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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

An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

##

* 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
Rating: moderate

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