RHEL 7 : rh-nodejs10-nodejs (RHSA-2019:2939)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 194000

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for rh-nodejs10-nodejs.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2939 advisory.

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

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-nodejs10-nodejs (10.16.3).

Security Fix(es):

* HTTP/2: large amount of data requests leads to denial of service (CVE-2019-9511)

* HTTP/2: flood using PING frames results in unbounded memory growth (CVE-2019-9512)

* HTTP/2: flood using PRIORITY frames results in excessive resource consumption (CVE-2019-9513)

* HTTP/2: flood using HEADERS frames results in unbounded memory growth (CVE-2019-9514)

* HTTP/2: flood using SETTINGS frames results in unbounded memory growth (CVE-2019-9515)

* HTTP/2: 0-length headers lead to denial of service (CVE-2019-9516)

* HTTP/2: request for large response leads to denial of service (CVE-2019-9517)

* HTTP/2: flood using empty frames results in excessive resource consumption (CVE-2019-9518)

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 rh-nodejs10-nodejs package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:2939.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?5ba3f528

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1735645

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1735741

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1735744

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1735745

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1735749

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1741860

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1741864

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1741868

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2939

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 194000

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-2939.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/27/2024

Updated: 11/6/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12123

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs10-nodejs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs10-nodejs-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs10-npm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs10-runtime, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs10-scldevel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs10-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: 10/1/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/28/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12121, CVE-2018-12122, CVE-2018-12123, CVE-2019-5737, CVE-2019-9511, CVE-2019-9512, CVE-2019-9513, CVE-2019-9514, CVE-2019-9515, CVE-2019-9516, CVE-2019-9517, CVE-2019-9518

CWE: 20, 400

RHSA: 2019:2939