All versions of Node.js 8.x, 9.x, and 10.x are vulnerable and the severity is HIGH. An attacker can cause a denial of service (DoS) by causing a node server providing an http2 server to crash. This can be accomplished by interacting with the http2 server in a manner that triggers a cleanup bug where objects are used in native code after they are no longer available. This has been addressed by updating the http2 implementation.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2949 advisory.

    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-nodejs8-nodejs (8.11.4).
    (BZ#1621761)

    Security Fix(es):

    * nodejs: Out of bounds (OOB) write via UCS-2 encoding (CVE-2018-12115)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202003-48 (Node.js: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Node.js. Please review       the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could possibly write arbitrary files, cause a Denial       of Service condition or can conduct HTTP request splitting attacks.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

This update for nodejs8 to version 8.11.3 fixes the following issues :

These security issues were fixed :

  - CVE-2018-7167: Calling Buffer.fill() or Buffer.alloc()     with some parameters could have lead to a hang which     could have resulted in a DoS (bsc#1097375).

  - CVE-2018-7161: By interacting with the http2 server in a     manner that triggered a cleanup bug where objects are     used in native code after they are no longer available     an attacker could have caused a denial of service (DoS)     by causing a node server providing an http2 server to     crash (bsc#1097404).

  - CVE-2018-1000168: Fixed a denial of service     vulnerability by unbundling nghttp2 (bsc#1097401)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

An update of the nodejs package has been released.

Update for security fixes

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Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for nodejs8 to version 8.11.3 fixes the following issues:
These security issues were fixed :

  - CVE-2018-7167: Calling Buffer.fill() or Buffer.alloc()     with some parameters could have lead to a hang which     could have resulted in a DoS (bsc#1097375).

  - CVE-2018-7161: By interacting with the http2 server in a     manner that triggered a cleanup bug where objects are     used in native code after they are no longer available     an attacker could have caused a denial of service (DoS)     by causing a node server providing an http2 server to     crash (bsc#1097404).

  - CVE-2018-1000168: Fixed a denial of service     vulnerability by unbundling nghttp2 (bsc#1097401)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The version of Node.js installed on the remote host is 6.x prior to 6.14.3, 8.x prior to 8.11.3, 9.x prior to 9.11.2 or 10.x prior to 10.4.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Node.js reports : Denial of Service Vulnerability in HTTP/2 (CVE-2018-7161) All versions of 8.x and later are vulnerable and the severity is HIGH. An attacker can cause a denial of service (DoS) by causing a node server providing an http2 server to crash. This can be accomplished by interacting with the http2 server in a manner that triggers a cleanup bug where objects are used in native code after they are no longer available. This has been addressed by updating the http2 implementation. Thanks to Jordan Zebor at F5 Networks for reporting this issue. Denial of Service, nghttp2 dependency (CVE-2018-1000168) All versions of 9.x and later are vulnerable and the severity is HIGH. Under certain conditions, a malicious client can trigger an uninitialized read (and a subsequent segfault) by sending a malformed ALTSVC frame. This has been addressed through an by updating nghttp2. Denial of Service Vulnerability in TLS (CVE-2018-7162) All versions of 9.x and later are vulnerable and the severity is HIGH. An attacker can cause a denial of service (DoS) by causing a node process which provides an http server supporting TLS server to crash. This can be accomplished by sending duplicate/unexpected messages during the handshake. This vulnerability has been addressed by updating the TLS implementation. Thanks to Jordan Zebor at F5 Networks all of his help investigating this issue with the Node.js team. Memory exhaustion DoS on v9.x (CVE-2018-7164) Versions 9.7.0 and later are vulnerable and the severity is MEDIUM. A bug introduced in 9.7.0 increases the memory consumed when reading from the network into JavaScript using the net.Socket object directly as a stream. An attacker could use this cause a denial of service by sending tiny chunks of data in short succession. This vulnerability was restored by reverting to the prior behaviour. Calls to Buffer.fill() and/or Buffer.alloc() may hang (CVE-2018-7167) Calling Buffer.fill() or Buffer.alloc() with some parameters can lead to a hang which could result in a Denial of Service. In order to address this vulnerability, the implementations of Buffer.alloc() and Buffer.fill() were updated so that they zero fill instead of hanging in these cases.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
194056	RHEL 7 : rh-nodejs8-nodejs (RHSA-2018:2949)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
134776	GLSA-202003-48 : Node.js: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
123217	openSUSE Security Update : nodejs8 (openSUSE-2019-513)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
121994	Photon OS 2.0: Nodejs PHSA-2018-2.0-0093	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
120914	Fedora 28 : 1:nodejs (2018-f59d961d7b)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
120038	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : nodejs8 (SUSE-SU-2018:1918-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
118957	Node.js multiple vulnerabilities (July 2018 Security Releases).	Nessus	Misc.	high
111095	openSUSE Security Update : nodejs8 (openSUSE-2018-724)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
110822	Fedora 27 : 1:nodejs (2018-79841c871e)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
110539	FreeBSD : node.js -- multiple vulnerabilities (45b8e2eb-7056-11e8-8fab-63ca6e0e13a2)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	high

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