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openSUSE Security Update : nodejs8 (openSUSE-2019-513)

high Nessus Plugin ID 123217

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

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.

Solution

Update the affected nodejs8 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1091764

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1097375

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1097401

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1097404

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 123217

File Name: openSUSE-2019-513.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/27/2019

Updated: 6/11/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-7161

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-7167

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:npm8, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nodejs8-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nodejs8-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nodejs8, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nodejs8-debuginfo

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/23/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/8/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000168, CVE-2018-7161, CVE-2018-7167