SUSE SLES15 Security Update : nodejs16 (SUSE-SU-2024:1308-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 193386

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1308-1 advisory.

- The team has identified a vulnerability in the http server of the most recent version of Node, where malformed headers can lead to HTTP request smuggling. Specifically, if a space is placed before a content- length header, it is not interpreted correctly, enabling attackers to smuggle in a second request within the body of the first. Impacts: Thank you, to bpingel for reporting this vulnerability and Paolo Insogna for fixing it. Summary The Node.js project will release new versions of the 18.x, 20.x, 21.x releases lines on or shortly after, Wednesday, April 3, 2024 in order to address: (CVE-2024-27982)

- An attacker can make the Node.js HTTP/2 server completely unavailable by sending a small amount of HTTP/2 frames packets with a few HTTP/2 frames inside. It is possible to leave some data in nghttp2 memory after reset when headers with HTTP/2 CONTINUATION frame are sent to the server and then a TCP connection is abruptly closed by the client triggering the Http2Session destructor while header frames are still being processed (and stored in memory) causing a race condition. (CVE-2024-27983)

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 nodejs16, nodejs16-devel, nodejs16-docs and / or npm16 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1222244

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1222384

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2024-April/034990.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-27982

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-27983

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 193386

File Name: suse_SU-2024-1308-1.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/17/2024

Updated: 4/17/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

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-2024-27982

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-27983

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs16, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs16-docs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:npm16, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs16-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 4/16/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/3/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-27982, CVE-2024-27983

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:1308-1