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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : nodejs8 (SUSE-SU-2020:2800-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 143610

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for nodejs8 fixes the following issues :

CVE-2020-8174: Fixed multiple memory corruption in napi_get_value_string_*() (bsc#1172443).

CVE-2020-11080: Fixed a potential denial of service when receiving unreasonably large HTTP/2 SETTINGS frames (bsc#1172442).

CVE-2020-7598: Fixed an issue which could have tricked minimist into adding or modifying properties of Object.prototype (bsc#1166916)

CVE-2020-15095: Fixed information leak through log files (bsc#1173937).

Explicitly add -fno-strict-aliasing to CFLAGS to fix compilation on Aarch64 with gcc10 (bsc#1172686).

Add Require for nodejs8 when intalling npm8 (bsc#1172728)

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.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Web Scripting 15-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Web-Scripting-15-SP2-2020-2800=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1166916

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172442

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172443

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172686

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172728

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173937

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-11080/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15095/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-7598/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8174/

http://www.nessus.org/u?246c4ae0

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 143610

File Name: suse_SU-2020-2800-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/9/2020

Updated: 2/6/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8174

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs8-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs8-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs8-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:npm8, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs8, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/30/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/11/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-11080, CVE-2020-15095, CVE-2020-7598, CVE-2020-8174