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RHEL 8 : nodejs:16 (RHSA-2023:4034)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 178235

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for nodejs:16.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:4034 advisory.

 Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language.

 Security Fix(es):

 * c-ares: 0-byte UDP payload Denial of Service (CVE-2023-32067)

 * c-ares: Buffer Underwrite in ares_inet_net_pton() (CVE-2023-31130)

 * c-ares: Insufficient randomness in generation of DNS query IDs (CVE-2023-31147)

 * c-ares: AutoTools does not set CARES_RANDOM_FILE during cross compilation (CVE-2023-31124)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, 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.

Solution

Update the RHEL nodejs:16 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:4034.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d9daae86

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209494

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209497

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209501

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209502

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4034

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 178235

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-4034.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/13/2023

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-31147

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:npm, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-packaging, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-full-i18n, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-nodemon, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/12/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/24/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-31124, CVE-2023-31130, CVE-2023-31147, CVE-2023-32067

CWE: 330, 400

RHSA: 2023:4034