Product Errata

RLSA-2021:0549

Moderate: nodejs:12 security update

Topic

An update is available for nodejs-nodemon, nodejs-packaging.

This update affects Rocky Linux 8.

A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list

Description

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: nodejs (12.20.1), nodejs-nodemon (2.0.3).

Security Fix(es):

* nodejs-mixin-deep: prototype pollution in function mixin-deep (CVE-2019-10746)

* nodejs-set-value: prototype pollution in function set-value (CVE-2019-10747)

* nodejs-npm-user-validate: improper input validation when validating user emails leads to ReDoS (CVE-2020-7754)

* nodejs-ini: prototype pollution via malicious INI file (CVE-2020-7788)

* nodejs: use-after-free in the TLS implementation (CVE-2020-8265)

* nodejs: HTTP request smuggling via two copies of a header field in an http request (CVE-2020-8287)

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.