RHEL 6 / 7 : rh-nodejs4-nodejs (RHSA-2017:3002)

high Nessus Plugin ID 194073

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for rh-nodejs4-nodejs.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2017:3002 advisory.

Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-nodejs4-nodejs (4.8.4).
(BZ#1476314)

Security Fix(es):

* It was found that Node.js was using a non-randomized seed when populating hash tables. An attacker, able to supply a large number of inputs, could send specially crafted entries to the Node.js application, maximizing hash collisions to trigger an excessive amount of CPU usage, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2017-11499)

Bug Fix(es):

* The /opt/rh/rh-nodejs4/root/usr/share/licenses/ directory was not owned by any package. Consequently, when the rh-nodejs4 collection was uninstalled, the directory was not removed. This bug has been fixed, and the aforementioned directory is correctly removed after uninstalling rh-nodejs4. (BZ#1316626)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the RHEL rh-nodejs4-nodejs package based on the guidance in RHSA-2017:3002.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 194073

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2017-3002.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/27/2024

Updated: 11/5/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-11499

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs4-runtime, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs4-nodejs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs4-nodejs-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs4-node-gyp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs4-scldevel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-nodejs4-nodejs-devel

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: 10/23/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/11/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-11499

RHSA: 2017:3002

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