Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-1687-03 – Torchsec

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Important: nodejs:20 security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:1687-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1687
Issue date: 2024-04-08
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2023-46809
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Summary:

An update for the nodejs:20 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives
a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE
link(s) in the References section.

Description:

Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable
network applications in the JavaScript programming language.

Security Fix(es):

* nodejs: vulnerable to timing variant of the Bleichenbacher attack against PKCS#1 v1.5 padding (Marvin) (CVE-2023-46809)

* nodejs: reading unprocessed HTTP request with unbounded chunk extension allows DoS attacks (CVE-2024-22019)

* nodejs: code injection and privilege escalation through Linux capabilities (CVE-2024-21892)

* nodejs: path traversal by monkey-patching buffer internals (CVE-2024-21896)

* nodejs: multiple permission model bypasses due to improper path traversal sequence sanitization (CVE-2024-21891)

* nodejs: improper handling of wildcards in --allow-fs-read and --allow-fs-write (CVE-2024-21890)

* nodejs: setuid() does not drop all privileges due to io_uring (CVE-2024-22017)

Solution:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

CVEs:

CVE-2023-46809

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2264569
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2264574
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2264582
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2265717
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2265720
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2265722
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2265727