QID 239131

Date Published: 2021-03-24

QID 239131: Red Hat Update for nodejs:14 (RHSA-2021:0744)

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 (14.16.0).

Security Fix(es): nodejs: HTTP2 'unknownProtocol' cause DoS by resource exhaustion (CVE-2021-22883) nodejs: DNS rebinding in --inspect (CVE-2021-22884)

Affected Products:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Note: The preceding description block is extracted directly from the security advisory. Using automation, we have attempted to clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

On successful exploitation, it could allow an attacker to execute code.

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 7.5 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5.1 severity.
    • Solution
    Upgrade to the latest packages which contain a patch. Refer to Applying Package Updates to RHEL system for details.

    Refer to Red Hat security advisory RHSA-2021:0744 to address this issue and obtain more information.

    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 239131

    CVE-2021-22883 | CVE-2021-22884 |
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    RHSA-2021:0744 Red Hat Enterprise Linux URL Logo access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0744?language=en
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