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Fedora 38 : nodejs16 / nodejs18 / nodejs20 (2023-973319d5b7)

high Nessus Plugin ID 173881

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 38 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-973319d5b7 advisory.

 Fixes for virtual Provides/Requires of `nodejs` and `nodejs-devel`

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 Assorted fixes for v8-devel

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 Update to 19.8.1

 Fix confilct with nodejs18


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 ## 2023-02-16, Version 16.19.1 'Gallium' (LTS), @richardlau

 This is a security release.

 ### Notable Changes

 The following CVEs are fixed in this release:

 * **[CVE-2023-23918](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-23918)**: Node.js Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.mainModule (High)
 * **[CVE-2023-23919](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-23919)**: Node.js OpenSSL error handling issues in nodejs crypto library (Medium)
 * **[CVE-2023-23920](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-23920)**: Node.js insecure loading of ICU data through ICU\_DATA environment variable (Low)

 Fixed by an update to undici:

 * **[CVE-2023-23936](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-23936)**: Fetch API in Node.js did not protect against CRLF injection in host headers (Medium)
 * See <https://github.com/nodejs/undici/security/advisories/GHSA-5r9g-qh6m-jxff> for more information.
 * **[CVE-2023-24807](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-24807)**: Regular Expression Denial of Service in Headers in Node.js fetch API (Low)
 * See <https://github.com/nodejs/undici/security/advisories/GHSA-r6ch-mqf9-qc9w> for more information.

 More detailed information on each of the vulnerabilities can be found in [February 2023 Security Releases](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/february-2023-security-releases/) blog post.

 This security release includes OpenSSL security updates as outlined in the recent [OpenSSL security advisory](https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230207.txt).

 ### Commits

 * \[[`7fef050447`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7fef050447)] - **build**: build ICU with ICU\_NO\_USER\_DATA\_OVERRIDE (RafaelGSS) [nodejs-private/node-private#374](https://github.com/nodejs- private/node-private/pull/374)
 * \[[`b558e9f476`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b558e9f476)] - **crypto**: clear OpenSSL error on invalid ca cert (RafaelGSS) [nodejs-private/node-private#375](https://github.com/nodejs-private/node- private/pull/375)
 * \[[`160adb7ffc`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/160adb7ffc)] - **crypto**: clear OpenSSL error queue after calling X509\_check\_private\_key() (Filip Skokan) [#45495](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/45495)
 * \[[`d0ece30948`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d0ece30948)] - **crypto**: clear OpenSSL error queue after calling X509\_verify() (Takuro Sato) [#45377](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/45377)
 * \[[`2d9ae4f184`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2d9ae4f184)] - **deps**: update undici to v5.19.1 (Matteo Collina) [nodejs-private/node-private#388](https://github.com/nodejs-private/node- private/pull/388)
 * \[[`d80e8312fd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d80e8312fd)] - **deps**: cherry-pick Windows ARM64 fix for openssl (Richard Lau) [#46568](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/46568)
 * \[[`de5c8d2c2f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/de5c8d2c2f)] - **deps**: update archs files for quictls/openssl-1.1.1t+quic (RafaelGSS) [#46568](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/46568)
 * \[[`1a8ccfe908`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1a8ccfe908)] - **deps**: upgrade openssl sources to OpenSSL\_1\_1\_1t+quic (RafaelGSS) [#46568](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/46568)
 * \[[`693789780b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/693789780b)] - **doc**: clarify release notes for Node.js 16.19.0 (Richard Lau) [#45846](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/45846)
 * \[[`f95ef064f4`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f95ef064f4)] - **lib**: makeRequireFunction patch when experimental policy (RafaelGSS) [nodejs-private/node-private#358](https://github.com/nodejs- private/node-private/pull/358)
 * \[[`b02d895137`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b02d895137)] - **policy**: makeRequireFunction on mainModule.require (RafaelGSS) [nodejs-private/node-private#358](https://github.com/nodejs-private/node- private/pull/358)
 * \[[`d7f83c420c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d7f83c420c)] - **test**: avoid left behind child processes (Richard Lau) [#46276](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/46276)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected 1:nodejs16, 1:nodejs18 and / or 1:nodejs20 packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-973319d5b7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 173881

File Name: fedora_2023-973319d5b7.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/5/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-23918

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nodejs18, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nodejs16, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nodejs20

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/3/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/16/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-23918, CVE-2023-23919, CVE-2023-23920, CVE-2023-23936, CVE-2023-24807