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openSUSE Security Update : nodejs4 (openSUSE-2018-375)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 109101

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for nodejs4 fixes the following issues :

 - Fix some node-gyp permissions

 - New upstream maintenance 4.9.1 :

 - Security fixes :

 + CVE-2018-7158: Fix for 'path' module regular expression denial of service (bsc#1087459)

 + CVE-2018-7159: Reject spaces in HTTP Content-Length header values (bsc#1087453)

 - Upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.2o

 - deps: reject interior blanks in Content-Length

 - deps: upgrade http-parser to v2.8.0

 - remove any old manpage files in %pre from before update-alternatives were used to manage symlinks to these manpages.

 - Add Recommends and BuildRequire on python2 for npm.
 node-gyp requires this old version of python for now.
 This is only needed for binary modules.

 - even on recent codestreams there is no binutils gold on s390 only on s390x

 - Enable CI tests in %check target This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected nodejs4 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1087453

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1087459

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 109101

File Name: openSUSE-2018-375.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/18/2018

Updated: 10/31/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-7159

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nodejs4-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nodejs4-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:npm4, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nodejs4-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nodejs4, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/17/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-7158, CVE-2018-7159