QID 239531

Date Published: 2021-08-05

QID 239531: Red Hat Update for rh-nodejs14-nodejs and rh-nodejs14-nodejs-nodemon (RHSA-2021:2932)

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: rh-nodejs14-nodejs (14.17.2).

Security Fix(es): nodejs-hosted-git-info: Regular Expression denial of service via shortcutMatch in fromUrl()
(CVE-2021-23362) nodejs-ssri: Regular expression DoS (ReDoS)
when parsing malicious SRI in strict mode (CVE-2021-27290) normalize-url: ReDoS for data URLs (CVE-2021-33502) libuv: out-of-bounds read in uv__idna_toascii()
can lead to information disclosures or crashes (CVE-2021-22918)

Affected Products:

Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.7 x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.7 s390x
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.7 ppc64le
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7 s390x
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7 ppc64le
Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64

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 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-2021:2932 to address this issue and obtain more information.

    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 239531

    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    RHSA-2021:2932 Red Hat Enterprise Linux URL Logo access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2932?language=en